Beloved

"124 was spiteful"

"A pool of red and undulating light that locked him where he stood."

"A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody."

"There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks."

"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

"I would have known at once when my water broke."

"I am Beloved and she is mine."

"A hot thing."

"Seven-o! Seven-o!"

"You your best thing, Sethe. You are."

"No more clamor for a kiss. Beloved."

Colors

Baby Suggs lies in bed thinking about color

She does not die until she finds the right one

People are thankful that she finds it before she gets to red

The color red represents Beloved's death

Paul D. sees it shining from beneath the door of 124

Sethe lies in Baby Suggs bed waiting to die after Beloved leaves

Amy Denver likes red "carmine" velvet

She wants to buy her velvet in Boston

Trees

The main source of healing

Denver's "emerald closet"

The place in the woods where Denver hid her personal items and went for solitude

She stopped going as soon as she found Beloved

The main thing Sethe focuses on from Sweet Home is the trees

The scars on Sethe's back form a choke cherry tree

The dark side

Lynchings

Sixo's burning death

Hearts

Paul D. has a "tin tobacco box" for a heart

Where he locks away his feelings

Sethe stops feeling

Denver doesn't feel or hear as soon as her mother's crime is mentioned

Doesn't "take heart" until her family is in danger

Finds a job, joins the community, and takes care of the family

Amy Denver

Saves Sethe's life

Saves Denver's life

Schoolteacher

Nephews

Mr. Bodwin

Mr. Garner

Mrs. Garner

Support of communities to survive

The community supports the family when Denver asks for help

Slavery's destruction of identity/humanity

Christianity

Communion

Denver drank her sister's blood

Baby Sugg's field worships

Sacrificed death of Beloved

Christ-like

"Four horsemen"

Paul D. sleeps in a church cellar

The woman who come to save Sethe from Beloved pray and sing

Supernatural

Beloved is a ghost

Everyone accepts that there are ghosts

Every negro house as some sort of ghost

A baby ghost is not the worst kind to have

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