Beloved, By Toni Morrison

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For my outside reading assignment I read a book called Beloved. The book is an interesting one because I actually wasn’t expecting what happened on the book. One of the characters I want to talk about is Sethe. Morrison shows Sethe on the book by being this woman who wants to be a great mother for their kids even though she never got to meet her own mother. She wants to protect them from the white people that abused her back at “sweet home,” she protects them way too much by killing one of her daughters named Beloved. I think the book goes around the fact that Sethe is blaming herself for killing her kid, even though she thinks it was for protection. Sethe went through a lot back at “Sweet Home.” First of all, she is sold into that house