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 * Beloved Free Write: i Loved this book, because Morrison truly made it controversial and went against the norm. I loved how she made murder look reasonable (Sethe killing her baby to keep her out of slavery), i loved how she involved ghost and culture within the books, and i love how she gave some insight on how slaves were treated. Beloved is a powerful book that captures a lot of different themes that will attract almost any reader. **
 * -Jacqueline Johnson **

Beloved Free-Write Benjamin Gonzalez said: The themes of love, risk-taking, etc. are pretty much intertwined and are visible throughout the novel. The story-line is pretty much centered around them. Risk taking is evident as a dimension of the novel when Sethe leaves the plantation. IF she were caught she would have been killed and it takes a strong character to put your life on the line. She is also fleeing from the fact that she was raped by the schoolteachers sons who took "her precious milk." These dimensions of the book allow us to empathize with the characters although were are different from them culturally and historically speaking. We are situated in time, which is also a very important aspect of the novel Beloved, where we do not possess the capacity to understand the horrors or depraved conditions of chattel slavery. Our emotional resources, as Toni Morrison explained during her interview, have become limited over time as living conditions and norms have changed allowing us to not be as emotional towards anything. Spiritual survival is mentioned throughout the book its absurdity or palpability is never questioned which leaves me to believe the characters within the novel are pretty much living dead. Not like zombies but.....you know what I mean.

Love, risk-taking, and spiritual survival relates to the stories told in Beloved as well as Toni Morrison's own process of writing by it takes real, pure, honest love for a person to take on a dangerous, risk-taking challenge. Especially when all they have is their faith and spirit to go off of. Many people in slave days lived strictly by faith because that was one of the only things they had, that could not be taken from their souls. Often love was a risk to take because love can be divided but love does still love on even when the loved ones are no longer together -Kiah Rothschild

love is what holds people together. its what gives people hope, and keeps them fighting. This was all some slaves had to keep them going. carlos flores Toni Morrison touches on a type of love in her novel, that we have yet to encounter in class readings this far. The love she writes of is risky, unconventional, and severley deep. The fact that she has to make the painful decison to kill the baby or submit her to slavery, marks a significant point in love, which most people have never experienced. This novel seems like it will be full of this type of love; non-traditional, risky, and controversial. -Denaya Shorter

Morrison was taking a risk by writing a book about the inner thoughts, emotions, of the characters during slavery. Love portrayes Sethe's sacrifice of her daughter. She doesn't want to see her daughter go through the same tragedies as slavery that she has been through. Love is also an unexpected resource that Morrison had. -Michelle Hopson

Love deals with keeping the soul alive. Toni Morrison mentions you have to love it. "A soul can still survive under those circumstances". Risk taking can deal with the circumstances that Sethe killed her own daughter in order to keep her from being taken away from slave owners. Beloved was reincarnated into different forms that were human and non human showing that her spiritual survival was still present. -Devon Boone

The book follows the story of Sethe and her daughter Denver as they try to rebuild their lives after having escaped from slavery that is interesting book. Harpreet Sahota . Toni Morrison gets drawn into the whole process of how slaves were treated, which affects the writing of the novel. Also, there were various harmful gadgets used was difficult for slaves to survive; risk-taking and spiritual survival opens up to Beloved and the them to the stories told. Love keeps the soul alive and to fight for survival. -Romi Jawanda

The themes of risk-taking, love, and spirituals crowd was important in Morrison's theme because she tells about it to the slave's lives. For example, it was hard to love for slaves because they would be separated and put to work. It wasn't a guarantee that you would get to be with the ones you loved so they had to learn to love their self because no one could do that for you. Beloved was significant to love in the story. Spirituals crowd could be the reincarnation of Beloved. -Cindy Vang

Beloved explores the physical, emotional, and spiritual devastation of slavery, a devastation that continues to haunt Sethe even though she is free. She kills Beloved as a baby to save her from a life of agony and pain. Beloved comes back in a spiritual form due to the love she has for her mother. Even through death love can still be present. Annalisa Vang

In Beloved, Toni Morrison examines how the influence of slavery has caused black people to contain their emotion and rely on their belief to withstand the consequence of being born colored. Due to the painful experience of slavery, caused Baby Suggs to believe that it was not any reason to try and remember anything about the children that she had given birth too because, the Master was going to take them away. Rosiland Duffey

Taking your own child’s life with good intentions is risking the bond that a parent and child develops together throughout life, so she did, Sethe. It was unconditional love that Sethe had for her child and she didn't want the same life for her baby that she has which is one of imprisonment, slavery. - Kimeka Simmons

In Tony Morrisons "Beloved" love and risk taking are all in the same.When it came to Sethe and her children she refused to let them grow up in the lifestyle that would have been in their future. Sethe took the risk of killing her children to save them from a horrible life in slavery. That was plainly out of love. Still her child survives spiritually in her life literally. This book reflects love and the sacrifices some people are willing to make to protect those they love. -Maxine King