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__Free Write__ Toni Morrison's "Beloved" is a very powerful story. A mother, who has suffered enough for two people in her life, sees the chance to prevent her kids from the same adversity and she ceases that opportunity, problem was it required deaths of those she was trying to protect. Brings up the question of whether or not suffering/fighting/struggling is worse than quitting. -Tyre Miles

-Risk taking is necessary for survival. In "Beloved," we see Sethe, Beloved's mother, take many risks from an emotional standpoint that work for the betterment, and worst of those she loves. One needs love in otder to maintain spiritual survival as shown time and time again in the novel. Posted By: Derek Webber

Toni Morrison took a big risk writing this novel because she didn't know how it would be perceived. She didn't know her book was going to be a world wide success. Risk talking relates to this novel as well because it has to do with Sethe and her family running to the north to escape slavery.

-Andrew Smith

Love, risk-taking, and survival was an evident theme thoughtout Toni Morrison's "Beloved". The whole story told of Sethe's struggle to survive not for herself but for her children.The love she felt for them, even though all where gone except Denver was so powerful the emotion seemed to leap from the pages. Loving with everything Seth had did not mean she loved to hard it just meant no risk was to great as long as the ones she loved did not have to endore the hardship Sethe had too. By: Georgina Garza.

Spiritual survival is incorporated when a reincarnation of Sethe's deceased baby rolls around, in which her name is Beloved. Love always comes into play where Sethe returns to the town after several years and ends up having sexual intercourse with Paul D. Morrison took a risk by portraying the characters in the novel as being larger than life. Many criticize her works for being too official.

Love, risk taking and survial is key in Toni Morrison's life. Thru her life experiences it has seemed to help her build a clearer understanding of why certain things happen in ones life. Sometimes we make sacrifices in order to greater benefit our loved ones. The risks in her life made her wiser and a passionate writer of the realities around us. - Anthony Martinez

Ms. Toni Morrison knew that writing 'Beloved" needed for her to take a risk. Just as Sethe in the novel, she also took a risk when she killed her child because she did not want the same thing happen to her as did to Sethe. Sethe believed that her child would be better off dead than alive. -Ana Ibanez

Love and risk-taking relate to the stories told in Beloved because they took risks out of love. Sethe left Sweet Home because she loved her children so much she did not want them to experience the life she lived. Paul D loved Sethe enough to ease her pain. - Kiani Shaw

Spiritual survival plays a huge role in Beloved. In Beloved, the physical consequences expressed in the life as a slave would challenge anybody's spiritual survival. In the novel, the Chain gang were forced to perform acts of a sexual nature.Risk taking was when Sethe went to kill her newly born daughter, refraining her newly born from living life as a slave. If she was to be caught Sethe could've faced brutal torture, or even death. -Steven Pope

The theme risk-taking relates to Toni Morrison and the process of her writing her novel. It was a risk to her because she didnt think she would have the emotional resources to write a book about slavery. Spiritual survival is also a related theme to her book Beloved and her process of writing her book. She explained in the movie how it was horrible seeing the things that were used to hurt, torture, and kill the African Americans. Love also plays a big role as a theme. In the book, Sethe loves her children very much. She kills them because she loved them so much, and did not want them to go through what she went through. -Monica Silva

In the process of writing, Morrison didn’t know if she had the emotional capacity to go in depth about the history of slavery. Slavery was so intense and horrific that many people wouldn’t be able to understand the severity of what slaves were actually put through at the hands of another human being. Slaves had to create spiritual survival by blocking out their experiences in order to get through their day, even when they were set free, many couldn’t tell their stories. Another way slaves survived was by taking risks, Sethe was willing to kill her own children before they could experience enslavement. Many slaves held onto their faith, but learned how to hide it in other forms because it was the only thing that couldn’t be taken away from them. -Lolita Bounyavong

Morrison was not only an inspirational writer but a writer that took chances in her writing. When it came to slavery, she didn't know if you she could emotional capture the true essence of slavery. The art of slavery remains so complex and terrible that many people would not be able to except slavery on the same level. Beloved was the book that she decided to give her all too, the book consisted of an ultimate sacrifice of a child so her life would not end in the wrong doing. - Courtnei Johnson

Beloved was a very dramatic story that made the reader to focus in the details of the story. Inequalities, self-love, and racism are three very important roles that impacted this family experienced racism. This family loved each other were, unfortunately they seen by white people as slaves. Even though Slavery is over, white people wanted to see them as slaves. Juan Gastelum

As far as love and risk taking, Sethe loved her children so much that she would keep them safe by all means, as far as Morrison she took a chance to write about slavery something that wasn't so easy for her. -Dwayne Wilson