Right now in Ms. Hegeman class we are reading this book called Beloved, which is a little different from the other books we have read. Beloved is a book about slavery and how it had an impact on the life of a mother. Today we had a Socratic seminar and one of the questions that I found interesting was, was Sethe justified for killing Beloved. So basically in the book Sethe was mother who killed her daughter Beloved because she felt like it was the best thing to for her daughter's life. Some people felt as if Sethe was wrong because she didn't have to kill her instead do something else. I think for Sethe that was the only option for her because as a slave she really didn't have family because they were mostly separated. She believed that she would rather have a child died then being raped like she was. Sethe went through this traumatic experience of slavery and she would have felt guilty if she was to put her daughter through the same experience as her knowing what was coming for her.
Some people felt like Sethe was wrong for killing Beloved a I do too as well. I agree with why she decide to kill her child, but I also feel like she could have did something differently then killing a little child. In the book, you get see how Beloved the daughter holds some kind of grudge against her mom because in one of the chapters she started choking her mom. This shows that Beloved is still holding on to some kind of revenge.
This book sounds very interesting and i really would like to read it myself although i think tat it would be hard for me to read a book abut slavery.
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