Two part reading response: Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beloved, is a novel wtitten by Toni Morrison, based on the true story of a black slave. Sethe was married to Halle during the time she was a slave in the " Sweet Home" the play they stayed during their slavery. After their owner Mr Garner died The sweet home was taken over by a man named " school teacher". He treated them like animals, so they decided to run away. She used to take her children into the woods and intended to kill them, she thought it would be better if they die than being slavs and sexually abused. So she killed one of them. After 20 years of that incident, one lady appeared at her door. Sethe locked herself and started blaming and loving in guilt. After Paul D returning, he tried to convince that what she did past now. In my opinion, what Sethe did was just a mother instict, she couldn't see her children living and being abused as slaves as her personal experiences so she decided to kill them in act of supreme love.