Brief Summary Of 'Quotes From Beloved'

Quotation 5 In Baby Suggs mind, step number one of trying to recover is to love other people, but also love every part of yourself. Baby Suggs preaches this to Sethe when they leave Sweet Home. She discusses how it is important to overcome what you have been faced with and to learn from the hate and promote love. Ella unlike Baby Suggs, suggested to do the opposite and to love nothing. In a sense Ella believes that to love nothing will make it easier to live on if love is not existent than to be let down by society and the horrors of slavery. Paul D also displays this, with his heart being replaced by a can of tobacco, he believes that to love nothing is easier than to love people. Paul D has been taken advantage of, brutally beaten, and let down time and time again, resulting in his philosophy. Unlike Paul D, Sethe has parts of both philosophy. She is scared from her past but she will give anything she has to love and protect everything she cares for. The notion that Sethe loves everything is present, but unlike

This reveals that Sethe’s friend Ella a former indentured servant had this happen to her. Sethe says this and possibly believed it happened because of her insight to what happened to Ella to make the story a more relatable and beliveble one. She also tells Denver this to cover up the real truth of what happened to Beloved all those years ago. The reference to Ella that Sethe made serves as an explanation to Sethe’s thoughts and makes an example out of the fact that things like this did happen serving as proof, her friend from the past Ella. Sethe uses this as a way to hide the past and acknowledge what really happened to Beloved all those years ago, because she does not want to have “rememory” of it. She then chooses to acknowledge the hatred that Beloved had for Paul D as a product of these horrific events she paints a picture