https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039 By Maialen Richards, Kayla Morgan, Ronith Nambiar and Hengzhi Zhu en-us 2021-03-23 14:22:15 UTC 2025-11-12 08:26:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f465.png hengzhizhu https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343142141 Beloved was born into slavery on the Sweet Home Plantation and She is the 3rd child of Sethe and Hallej after Howard and Buglar.

Quote: "Halle’s woman. Pregnant every year including
the year she sat by the fire telling him she was going to run."(Page 15)]]> 2021-03-23 14:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343142141 hengzhizhu https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343143617 Quote: "A FULLY DRESSED woman walked out of the water. She barely gained the dry
bank of the stream before she sat down and leaned against a mulberry tree."

After returning from the carnival, Sethe, Paul D and Denver discover a young woman who was sitting in front of the 124. That woman was Beloved and it is said that she had come from the water without anyone seeing her emerge.]]> 2021-03-23 14:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343143617 maialenrichards1 https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343143662 Before Sethe escapes from Slavery,  she sent Beloved, Howard and Buglar to escape as well ahead of time to Baby Suggs in 124 by taking a secret Caravan.

Quote: "Her three children she had already packed into a wagonload of others in a caravan of Negroes crossing the river. They were to be left with Halle’s mother near Cincinnati."(Page 15).]]> 2021-03-23 14:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343143662 maialenrichards1 https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343145189 In this scene, Baby Suggs is talking about taking care of Beloved around the time she is rejoined with her mother at 124/

Quote: "It was not real yet. Not yet. But when her sleepy boys and crawling-
already? girl were brought in, it didn’t matter whether it was real or not. Sethe lay in bed under, around, over, among but especially with them all. The little girl dribbled clear spit into her face, and Sethe’s laugh of delight was so loud the crawling-already? baby blinked."]]> 2021-03-23 14:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343145189 kaylamorgan3 https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343150080 Sethe slits Beloved's throat because she doesn't want her to go through slavery like she did. Sethe buries her with a headstone that says "Beloved" on it.
Quote: "The welcoming cool of unchiseled headstones; the one she selected to lean against on tiptoe, her knees wide open as any grave. Pink as a
fingernail it was, and sprinkled with glittering chips."]]> 2021-03-23 14:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343150080 hengzhizhu https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343153851 In this section, Beloved is attacking the house after Paul D arrives and rekindles a relationship with Sethe, which later leads him to stopping and shutting her up completely, Beloved not returning until she becomes human later in the story.

Quote: Now he was trembling again but in the legs this time. It took him a while to realize that his legs were not shaking because of worry, but because the floorboards were and the grinding, shoving floor was only part of it. The house itself was pitching. Sethe slid to the floor and struggled to get back into her dress.

]]> 2021-03-23 14:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343153851 maialenrichards1 https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343155464 Quote: "They stayed that way for a while because neither Denver nor Sethe knew how not to: how to stop and not love the look or feel of the lips that kept on kissing."

Both Denver and Sethe form a connection with Beloved. Neither Denver nor Sethe want Beloved to leave them. Both of them bond differently with Beloved. Sethe enjoys the familiarity of Beloved and Denver enjoys having a person who is like a friend to her

]]> 2021-03-23 14:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343155464 hengzhizhu https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343157152 In this section, Sethe is describing how the fact that 124 was being haunted by Beloved scared away her own two younger brothers, with Baby Suggs dying shortly after, leaving Denver and Sethe to be the only ones who are left in the house.

Quote: 124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby’s venom. The women in the house knew it
and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way,
but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were its only victims. The
grandmother, Baby Suggs, was dead, and the sons, Howard and Buglar, had
run away by the time they were thirteen years old—as soon as merely looking
in a mirror shattered it (that was the signal for Buglar); as soon as two tiny
hand prints appeared in the cake (that was it for Howard).]]> 2021-03-23 14:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343157152 maialenrichards1 https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343165654 Sethe, Denver and Beloved was in the forest clearing and while Sethe was meditating, she felt what she thought Baby Suggs's spirit massaging her but then suddenly it starts choking her and she was only saved when Beloved came by. But actually it was Beloved, Denver saw

Quote: “Harder, harder, the fingers moved slowly around toward her windpipe, making little circles on the way. Sethe was actually more surprised than frightened to find that she was being strangled. Or so it seemed. In any case, Baby Suggs’ fingers had a grip on her that would not let her breathe. Tumbling forward from her seat on the rock, she clawed at the hands that were not there. Her feet were thrashing by the time Denver got to her and then Beloved.” - Pg. 95]]> 2021-03-23 14:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343165654 maialenrichards1 https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343167052 Paul D keeps moving around the house in the place where he sleeps, on the night he sleeps in a shed behind 124, where Beloved came to Paul D and forced him to have Sex with her using her supernatural powers. 

Quote: "“Beloved.” He said it, but she did not go. She moved closer with a footfall he didn’t hear and he didn’t hear the whisper that the flakes of rust made either as they fell away from the seams of his tobacco tin. So when the lid gave he didn’t know it. What he knew was that when he reached the inside part he was saying, “Red heart. Red heart,” over and over again. Softly and then so loud it woke Denver, then Paul D himself. “Red heart. Red heart. Red heart.”"(Page 113)]]> 2021-03-23 14:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/q4rg5xl05a1h6039/wish/1343167052