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Baby Suggs gives birth to Halle
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The Garners purchase Halle and Baby Suggs
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Sethe's mother was hanged
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Halle buys Baby Suggs freedom
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Sethe arrives at Sweet Home
Chapter 1 -
Sethe marries Halle
Chapter 1 -
School Teacher stopped Halle from doing any more work outside Sweet Home, thus depriving him of the chance to pay for the rest of his family’s release from slavery
Chapter 19 -
Sethe gives birth to her first child, Howard
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Sethe gave birth to her second child, Burglar
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After Mr. Garner dies, Miss Garner hired schoolteacher to take care of the farm and the slaves
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Sethe gives birth to Beloved at Sweet Home
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Sethe and the others plot to escape from Sweet Home
Chapter 1 -
Her kids manage to go to Baby Suggs house
Chapter 1 -
Two Schoolteacher nephews took Sethe's milk
Chapter 1 -
Schoolteacher burns Sixo and hangs Paul A
Chapter 19 -
Sethe ran away
Chapter 1 -
She meets Amy, who helped her to escape and also to bring Denver to life
Chapter 8 -
She meets Stamp Paid, who helps her pass through the Ohio river
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Meanwhile, Paul D goes to prison in Georgia, when trying to escape
Chapter 10 -
He escapes from prison and goes to Ohio
Chapter 10 -
Eventually, Sethe arrives to 124, Baby Suggs house
Chapter 9 -
The 4 horsemen came for Sethe and she kills her baby (Beloved)
Chapter 16 -
She goes to jail
Chapter 16 -
Beloved's ghost begins to haunt 124
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Sethe begins to work for Sawyer at his restaurant
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Sethe buries her baby and gives her a headstone with "Beloved" written on it
Chapter 1 -
Denver begins to attend Lady Jones school
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Denver is questioned about her mother killing her baby at school and she stops attending school
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Baby Suggs dies
Chapter 1 -
Paul D arrives
Chapter 1 -
Paul D scares the ghost that lived inside the house, and it goes away
Chapter 3 -
Sethe's philosophy "Nothing ever dies"
Chapter 3 -
Paul D interprets Sethe as "motherly loved"
Chapter 4 -
Paul D, Denver and Sethe goes to the carnival
Chapter 4 -
Beloved rises up out of the water and waits at 124, outside their porch waiting for Sethe, Paul D and Denver to come back from the carnival
Chapter 5 -
The dog ran away
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Beloved starts asking intimate questions about Sethe and Paul D gets suspicious about her
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Sethe is choked
Chapter 9 -
Paul D and Sethe fight mainly about the baby she killed, and he eventually leaves
Chapter 18 -
Beloved eventually gains power over Sethe and Denver over and manages to stay in their house, 124. She also seems to know things about Sethe that no one else knows.
Chapter 9 -
Beloved gets bothered by Paul D because she wants Sethe all to herself
Chapter 11 -
After Beloved messes with Paul D's mind because of Sethe's attention, she has sex with him
Chapter 11 -
For the first time since Baby Suggs death, Stamp tries to knock on 124 but he can't. Later on Beloved and Denver saw him through the window and he leaves
Chapter 19 -
Sethe takes Beloved and Denver ice-skating
Chapter 19 -
Sethe tries to stab Bodwin with an ice pick when he tries to take Denver from her
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Sethe hears Beloved humming a song Sethe made up to sing to her children
Chapter 19 -
Sethe finally recognizes Beloved as her resurrected daughter.
Chapter 19 -
Sethe decides to discard the past and the future for the “timeless present” of 124
Chapter 19 -
While a slave, Stamp was forced to give his wife to his master’s son to sleep with, and he concluded that his wife was a gift so terrible that it freed him forever after all obligation. For this reason, he changed his name from Joshua to Stamp Paid.
Chapter 19 -
Sethe steals food and supplies because she is too proud to endure the local grocer’s racism
Chapter 19 -
Sethe wants to explain everything to Beloved so that her daughter will understand why her own mother killed her.
Chapter 20 -
Sethe ponders the power of a mother’s love
Chapter 20 -
Paul D ran into Stamp Paid and Stamp Paid shows him the clipping, newspaper from when Sethe killed her baby
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She confesses that she has loved Sethe out of fear, and that Howard and Buglar ran away because they like Denver, feared that whatever it was that motivated Sethe to kill her children might resurface one day.
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Denver believes that Beloved returned to help her wait for her father to come home. Denver is also convinced that she must protect Beloved from Sethe
Chapter 21 -
Beloved speaks of thirst and hunger, of death and sickness, and of “men without skin.” She says all the people are trying to leave their bodies behind
Chapter 22 -
Beloved then focuses on a woman whose face she “wants” because it is hers
Chapter 22 -
The rest of the monologue consists of Beloved’s description of her to attempt to “join” with a woman.
Chapter 22 -
Beloved is swallowed by the woman and suddenly, she is the woman.
Chapter 22 -
Beloved tells Sethe that she came back from the other side for her, that she remembers her, and that she fears that the men without skin will come back.
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Beloved begs Sethe never to leave her again and Sethe complies. Beloved laments that Sethe left and hurt her
Chapter 23 -
Paul D reflects on his past and notes that his two half brothers, Paul A and Paul F, are the only family he has ever known.
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Paul D partially blames his despair on his previous belief that he could build a life with Sethe
Chapter 24 -
Stamp Paid defends Sethe’s actions, saying she only wanted to “outhurt the hurter.”
Chapter 25 -
Beloved begins to drain Sethe’s life force
Chapter 26 -
Sethe arrives at work later every morning until she loses her job and the food in the house begins to run low -
Chapter 26 -
Beloved gets pregnant
Chapter 26 -
Their roles merge and invert as Sethe comes to act like a child while Beloved looms over her like a mother. When Sethe tries to assert herself, Beloved reacts violently and breaks things, and the two fight constantly
Chapter 26 -
Denver decides to leave 124 to find help.
Chapter 26 -
The community starts donating food for them
Chapter 26 -
Beloved had disappeared
Chapter 26 -
As the trouble at 124 continues, Denver visits the Bodwins for help
Chapter 26 -
Ella decides to rally a group of roughly thirty black women to exorcise Beloved from 124
Chapter 26 -
Sethe spots Mr. Bodwin coming up the road and mistakes him for Schoolteacher and tries to kill him with an ice pick, but is stoped by Denver
Chapter 26 -
The community sees Beloved as the representative of an implacable loneliness that can't be soothed away
Chapter 28 -
Paul D and the dog returns to 124
Chapter 28 -
Paul D tells Sethe about possible future - they need a “tomorrow”
Chapter 27 -
Beloved eventually disappears and people start to forget that she was even there
Chapter 28