Themes:
Abandonment
Supernatural Hauntings vs. Reality
Characters:
Sethe -
Denver - Sethe's daughter
Baby Suggs -Sethe's dead mother-in-law
Howard - Sethe's son who ran away
Buglar - Sethe's son who ran away
Beloved - Sethe's dead baby girl who haunts the house
Paul D - Man from Sweet Home
Halle - Sethe's possibly/most likely dead husband/baby daddy
Paul A
Paul F
Sixo
Setting:
(Ohio is right across the river from Kentucky)
(Ohio is free state, Kentucky is major slave state)
Sweet Home - ironic because it isn't a sweet home
124 - (3 is missing, Beloved is the 3rd child), Haunted House, before haunted it was a way station,
Motifs:
Ghosts/Hauntings
Symbols:
'Tree' on Sethe's back - Chokeberry tree,
Other Important Stuff:
~Past - acting on - present
~Escaping the past ~ How do you escape something that was traumatic?
~The journey from Slavery to freedom
~Idea of life and death and crossing over
~Ohio River
~Denver is born on the Ohio River, which isn't in KY or OH; this gives her hope for a better life than Sethe had
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