The Beloved is the daughter of a slave known as Sethe. Sethe escaped slavery with the help of escaped slaves and a woman named Denver who helped her when her feet were too swollen to even walk. Sethe was a slave tortured and raped by her teachers and sons. Sethe had to escape to save her children from ending up in a hell of slavery. When Sethe's teacher showed up at her mother-in-law's house, Sethe murdered her little daughter Beloved because she would rather kill herself and her children than return to slavery and take her children with her. She. Beloved felt anger at her mother for killing her, so she took her spirit and haunted the house. Beloved is the cause of his two older brothers leaving and the dog eventually running away. Beloved overturned tables, chairs, pictures, broke the dog's leg and tore out his eyeball. Even when Paul D first introduced himself before even entering the house, he felt the negative energy so strong that he knew something was wrong. Paul D could sense the evil that the baby possessed and was pouring into the 124 house, everyone felt it, even Sethe but she ignored the tension (Morrison 2). Paul D finally grew tired of the spirit. Sethe pretended to be sad instead of angry and forced the spirit to leave the house. He finally got Denver and Sethe out of the house and some people talked or smiled and others just seemed shocked to see them, but the three of them started to coalesce into a family. On their way home, they encountered a woman who seemed homeless and helpless, so they took her in and fed her. The woman couldn't talk or walk very well, she could barely hold her head up. The woman they took in began asking Sethe questions that made her think about her horrible past. She also knew a song by Sethe only...... middle of paper ......r, horrible conditions to live in as a human being. They stayed strong and worked together. Even though they couldn't read or write, thought they were, and were considered stupid animals, they were smarter than their teachers. They sang songs that had meaning behind them. Some songs told them to hold on a little longer, that God was coming to help them, and to run away. This is how most African American slaves held on and survived, through the lyrics and meanings of the songs. School teachers even placed bits, used to prevent horses from biting them, in slaves' mouths, preventing them from speaking. Beloved teaches many life lessons throughout this book, but the main one is forgiveness, forgive and forget and life would be easier and healthier. Works Cited Morrison, Toni. Beloved: a novel. : Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Print.