Denver's Growth in Beloved.

Denver's character growth in part 3 of Beloved, by Toni Morrison, was definitely my favorite part of the book so far. Throughout the novel, we see the characters struggle to determine their identity through Sethe and Paul D's conversations about their experiences in slavery. The novel focuses on Sethe's personal exploration and her growth as a character, and Denver remains stagnant, expressing only a childlike adoration for Beloved. As Denver realizes the toxicity of Beloved, she steps up from her role as an isolated dependent of Sethe and takes on the role of an adult as she finds work, provides food, and attempts to keep Beloved from harming Sethe too much.

Just because of her age, Denver was the character I could relate to the most easily. In addition to that, she was the one character in the book who we as readers had no reason to dislike, no morally gray decisions to consider. I was rooting for her since the beginning, and seeing her rise above her mother's inability to care and her sister's dismissal and malicious intent to become a fully realized human being. That was the one part of the book that I could really just enjoy.