Beloved (Pgs 9-101)

Summary:
Sethe and her daughter were left alone after her two brothers ran away, her mother in law recently died and her baby girl Beloved also died by getting it's throat cut. Paul D comes to visit Sethe and hears the bad news that Baby Suggs her mother in law had been for nine years. When he enter the house he felt a sudden rush of grief and though it was from Baby Suggs's deaf however it was cause of Beloved. After a while Denver starts to cry and then Sethe. Paul D comforts Sethe by going up to the room while they left Denver at the porch. Before Paul D moved to the house Denver was told the story when he mother was pregnant and meet a woman named Amy that was looking for velvet. Denver tells her mother that she saw something in white next to her while she prayed. Denver tells her that the baby which is a ghost has plans. She believed that no one appreciated the ghost company, but it didn't matter cause it was gone. However Sethe was being haunted by the death and runaways that had occurred in her family. Paul D had a feeling that there was something wrong with Denver but Sethe believed she was fine. Paul D and Denver got into an argument however it ended with all three of them planing to go the the carnival. After the carnival they found a girl named Beloved who was around her twenties,near the house they had offered her to stay with them, until she knew where se\he was going to be heading off to. Paul D believed that she acted sick but didn't look sick at all. But she just reminded Sethe of her dead baby. Beloved stayed with them for days asking Sethe questions and listening to her stories. This lead to Denver not understanding how Beloved knew so much about her mother. Denver knew the truth about Beloved being her dead baby sister but she was going to tell her mother the truth.

Quote: " 'Good God.' He backed out the door onto the porch. 'What kind of evil you got in here?' ". (Morrison 15).

Reaction:
This quote was said by Paul D. When he took his shoes and was entering his house. this quote was random for me because i would have not thought that you would be able to sense evil or any presence of something that is dead. This made me think that ghost and spirts are a big part of their bveliefs. I think that it is not a presence of evil but on that is caring. Because the ghost is the only thing that is there that is part of them and that hasnt left them and to them they dont feel it as evil. Paul D. might of felt it as something evil because it might be protecting Sethe and Denver from the world. Also i dont think its an evil ghost because when the baby died it would have known what it was going on. I believe that it doesnt even know how it had died but i believe that there is an important reason why  it is still haunting them.