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Examples
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(which is what he called Sethe's rough response to the Fugitive Bill) and that was to carry Baby Suggs, holy, out of it.
Beloved Morrison, Toni 1987
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Although Sethe is the very symbol of the past he wants to forget, Paul D is drawn to her past, present and future and fights for the family he believes he already has.
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The first time Sethe is “met by her past” a tragic incident ensues that ends with the loss of her child.
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"Sethe," he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody.
Beloved Morrison, Toni 1987
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When it seemed that she was about to be recaptured, Sethe committed a horrifying act of infanticide to save her baby from enslavement.
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She merely introduces the “interlude” with an allusion to the biblical Song of Songs “I am Beloved and she is mine”, which implies, I suppose, that Sethe has merged with Beloved after living with the ghost for so long.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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For example, I never really knew how Sethe was pronounced until I heard Toni Morrison read from her book.
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The things we gradually learn throughout the book – who Beloved is, what Sethe did, how and why – are unimaginable, and yet Toni Morrison enables us to imagine the sort of despair that could be behind something like that.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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For example, I never really knew how Sethe was pronounced until I heard Toni Morrison read from her book.
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She merely introduces the “interlude” with an allusion to the biblical Song of Songs “I am Beloved and she is mine”, which implies, I suppose, that Sethe has merged with Beloved after living with the ghost for so long.
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