• Sethe and Beloved :were too busy rationing their strength to fight ○ Like a parasite, Beloved begins to drain Sethe's life force • Sethe lost her job ○ There's not enough food anymore § Rationing food: rather eat the eggs the hens lay than fryi ○ She sacrifices much for Beloved: food (Beloved gets fat whil weight, Beloved wears Sethe's clothes" § Denver realizes that she has trouble telling Sethe and Be from each other § Beloved keeps saying how they had the same face, they and kept asking Sethe how she could've left her □ Sethe: begs for forgiveness for abandoning her "list again her reasons: that Beloved was more importan more to her than her own life. That she would trade day. Give up her life, every minute and hour of it, to just one of Beloved's tears." • It was obvious to Denver that Sethe could die ○ "the job she started out with, protecting Beloved from Sethe, protecting her mother from Beloved." • Denver leaves 124 for the first time in 12 years to find help ○ She ended up at Lady Jones' ○ "I want work, Miss Lady… I can't do anything, but I would l have a little extra… food. My ma'am, she doesn't feel good." • • • • • ○ Mrs. Jones: very caring - "Oh, baby… oh, baby." ○ Mrs. Jones offered to give them food until they were okay to theirselves but Denver refused "as though asking for help fro worse than hunger." "Two days later Denver… noticed something lying on the tree stu the yard. She went… and found a sack of white beans. Another tim rabbit meat. One morning a basket of eggs sat there…'M. Lucille in big crooked letters." "Every now and then, all through the spring, names appeared near food… to let the girl know… who the donor was… the name was "Beloved ate up her [Sethe] life, took it, swelled up with it, grw ta ○ "Denver thought she understood the connection between her Beloved: Sethe was trying to make up for the handsaw; Belo her pay for it." Word spread that "sethe's dead aughter, the one whose throat she c back to fix her. Sethe was worn down, speckled, dying, spinning, and generally bedeviled. That this daughter beat her, tied her to th pulled out all her hair." ○ "“You can’t just up and kill your children.” “No, and the chil up and kill the mama.”" The group of people who prayed for her made way to 124 and Set "look again at the loving faces before her that she sees him." ○ "Standing alone on the porch, Beloved is smiling. But now h Sethe is running away from her, running, and she feels the em hand Sethe has been holding. Now she is running into the fac out there, joining them and leaving Beloved behind. Alone. A Denver, running too. Away from her to the pile of people out make a hill. A hill of black people, falling. And above them a place with a whip in his hand, the man without skin, looking. her."

The Relationship Between Sethe and Beloved

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