BELOVED

I found this book to be a hard read but it also made me think about how bad life was for African Americans. The hardships that they had to endure on a day to day basis were unreal. In this story there were individuals, the Garners, who treated there slaves like people instead of animals. Mr. Garner said to the other land owners that he had men working for him and not boys. When Mr. Garner pasted away life for the men became a little more difficult. Following in suit with her husband Mrs. Garner fell ill and had to bring school teacher in to help run the days operations at Sweet Home. School teacher did not come alone he brought his two nephews. All three were very evil, lower than life, dare I even say men. They savagely beat the workers into submission or they ran. Life got real bad and it left Sethe with no option but to run. She had run to Baby Suggs who had her freedom bought by her son and lived in Ohio. But they were able to track her down at Baby Suggs house. The fear of going back forced her to murder her unnamed daughter and attempted to murder her three other children. The fear of going back to Sweet Home, back to school teacher and his nephews who beat her and stole her milk. The same men who, in essence, murder her sole and deprived them of their freedom. We can’t judge her for what she did because that is left to a higher being. Also we do not know what we would do if that was one of us. The story was told very well but I did not like how it jumped around a lot which made it less appealing for me personally.