Two part reading response : Beloved by Toni Morrison

Plot:  Beloved is a novel inspired by the story of an Afro-American slave ,who escaped slavery.
Sethe the protagonist of this novel escape from slavery with her daughter too. She lives in the house which is believed that the house is haunted because she killed her infant children. Meanwhile it appears Paul D which was one of the slaves from Sweet home ,arrives at Sethe's home and tries to bring a sense of peace and reality into home ,in trying to make the family forget the past,he forces out the spirit.Paul leaves because the spirit is to much for him .Sethe tried to escape with her children and thought to kill them because is the best way to get them from danger.While Sethe is confused and has a reminder of her God coming again ,Beloved disappears. The novel resolves with the returnig of Paul D to Sethe pledging his love .

MY Opinion 
In my opinion the act that Sethe made of killing her children is to protect them from suffering the same abuses she had as a slave
I think that this novel shows us the slavery fragments the minds and personalities of those who lived through it .Both Sethe and Paul D ,are trying to repress the memories of what happened to them and separate those past slaves from the free,fully realized slaves that they are trying to be now,for their own survival ,but the past is haunting them both psychologically and literally.But they can never be fully realized until they can get it out and exorcise it,so i think that the exorcism of beloved' is a parable for this psychological process of cleansing and healing.