Thursday, November 29, 2018

Beloved: The End

This is the end of Beloved. We are finished with the book but not the analysis, not just yet. The ending of Beloved was intresting but very confusing. What I gathered was that Sethe saw the white man on the waggon who was there to pick Denver up for her new job and she had a flash back to when the other white men came and had an ice pick in her hand and decided to use it. Sethe in the end was frail and weak and said she was so tired, Beloved was big and needy all the time, and Denver was thin but decided to fight. Beloved was big and fat with Sethe's love, she was so swelled with that love that it looked like she could pop. Denver became like Sethe she was tired but she wasn't going to give up because her family needed her, just like Sethe was tired of running but she kept fighting becasue her babies needed her. Now Paul D he decided to come back and see Sethe in 124, when he runs into Denver, she seems like she warmed up to Paul D. She wasn't so harsh to him as she once was and told him what was going on in her life and with Sethe, she didn't tell him not to go see Sethe but if he was to speak kindly to her. When he went he noticed that Sethe had given up and was laying in Baby Suggs bed which sybolized that she was ready to die.  The last few pages are unclear, it seemed they were talking about Beloved and how she had come and gone and no one remembered her becasue she was like a bad dream. However it talks about her footprint and how they come and go so perhaps she is still there but she is back in the ghost realm and is not so vengeful. The thing that is unclear is that the last word is Beloved but it doesn't really fit into context, it almost seems like Beloved was signing her name, like she wrote the last few pages of the book. But why would she write the last few pages? Is it because she started the book so she should end the book?

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