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  1. Beloved concludes with a group of women from the local community converging on 124 to ward off the ghost that has been haunting it. After Beloved disappears, Paul D returns to the house intending to make amends.

    • Chapters 20–23

      At the end of the chapter, Beloved is “in the water,” and...

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  3. At the end of Beloved, Paul D and Sethe seem like they're about to start a new life together. Denver's employed in town and preparing for grand things like college. And Beloved, well, Beloved's nowhere to be seen—a huge relief to everyone in town. So everything's good right? Happiness and sunshine and flowers all around? Not exactly. Lovebirds

  4. Why does Beloved haunt the house at 124? Why did Sethe kill Beloved? What happened to Halle? How did Paul D get his freedom? Why does the Black community of Cincinnati keep their distance from 124?

    • Toni Morrison
    • 1987
  5. At the end of the novel, Denver succeeds in establishing her own self and embarking on her individuation with the help of Beloved. Sethe only becomes individuated after Beloved's exorcism. Then, she is free to fully accept the first relationship that is completely "for her," her relationship with Paul D.

    • Toni Morrison
    • 1987
  6. Eighteen years have passed since she escaped from slavery at a farm called Sweet Home. Sweet Home was run by a cruel man known as schoolteacher, who allowed his nephews to brutalize Sethe while he took notes for his scientific studies of blacks.

  7. Beloved gradually and mysteriously forces Paul D out of the house by making him restless, so that he ends up sleeping outside in the cold house. When he is sleeping outside in the cold house one night, she persuades him to sleep with her and stirs up his painful memories.

  8. At the end of the chapter, Beloved isin the water,” and neither she nor the woman has an iron circle around her neck any longer. She is swallowed by the woman and, suddenly, she is the woman. She sees herself swim away and says, “I am alone.”

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