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How Does Sethe Make An Important Part In This Excerpt From Beloved

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I picked this excerpt because it shows a couple different important parts of the story. First of all, in this excerpt, Sethe is finally making the connection that Beloved is her daughter. When she is making that connection, her mind first goes to what her mother told her about how to recognize her if she could not recognize her face. Sethe recognizes her daughter by the characteristics she noticed and the what her mother in law told her about what she remembers of the baby. What this does for the story is it connects Sethe’s present life to her past and brings the story together for the reader to make connections to the dark parts of her life that the readers do not see as much of in the story as we see of the present time. Sethe does not

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