Chole Anthony Wofford Who?
...xorcises the ghost causing it to suddenly vanish; this makes Sethe so happy that she decides to allow Paul D to stay with them. This makes her daughter Denver upset because her ghost sister was her only friend and she also feels that Paul D is attempting to take her mother away from her. Meanwhile, Sethe and Paul D's reminisce about the past that consisted of the escape from the plantation, her love life, and the abuse her and the slaves experienced during the time. Most of the action in the novel takes place at 124 Bluestone Road in a house just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio and set in 1873, after the Civil War, but there are many flashbacks to a variety of times and places, including a Kentucky slave plantation called Sweet Home and a prison in Alfred, Georgia. There were many major characters in the novel such as Beloved, Sethe, Paul D Garner, Baby Suggs, Denver Suggs, and Schoolteacher. Beloved serves as the catalyst change for Sethe, Paul D, Denver, and the community. She is the the ghost and reincarnation of Sethe's older daughter whom she killed to protect her from slavery. Beloved is upset that this has happen to her so she comes back as a young woman to disrupt her mother's household. She stands for the repository of the painful past of African Americans. On the other hand Sethe is a black woman and former slave who's faced with attempting to and succeeding in killing one of her children in order to protect them slavery. Now living at 124 Bluestone Road Sethe is haunted by her murder daughter Beloved. Paul D the last surviving male amongst the slaves form Sweet Home Plantation lusted after Sethe and was sad when she choose Halle for her husband instead of him. After escaping the chain-gang prison camp, he wandered for years finally arriving at Bluestone to become Sethe's lover until he found out that she had murdered her oldest daughter, he leaves her and later comes back to help her find wholeness. Halle mother Baby Suggs was responsible for Sethe escape route from the plantation. When Sethe sends her three children to her to free them from slavery she lovingly takes them in but later when she finds out that Sethe killed one of her daughter's within a month she gives up her desire to live and dies. Denver Suggs, however was one of Sethe's daughters's born in a boat on the order between slavery and freedom. She is named after an indentured slave girl that’s helps deliver her. During most of the novel Denver lives her life in solitude and attempts to win the attention of the ghost of her dead sister. At the end of the novel she discovers a new meaning to the relationship between her and her mother. Schoolteacher was the widower of Mr. Garner's sister. He takes over the Sweet Home Plantation and treats the slaves no better than animals. Also he is an example of how the slaves pictured the slave owner's act. The author'...