Part one of term paper
In the course of Beloved by Toni Morrison, Sethe undergoes a journey from a woman whose only identity is drawn from the fact that she is a mother, to the beginnings of identifying herself as a human being. To Sethe, the future was a matter of “keeping the past at bay.” She is a frustrated woman who finds no comfort in the society until s ...

Part two of term paper
... ones in one way or another, sought to be set free from the bondage of slavery. She had experienced the horrible slave life of never having a family. Sethe never met her father and her brothers and sisters (if she even had any). Her mother was never there for her, for her mother “went back in rice and [Sethe] sucked from another woman whose job it was.” The breast milk fed to Sethe as a baby was not even from her own mother. Sethe also had to deal with the fact that she was not brought along ...