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The ending was shocking as who knew Beloved would actually leave the place. Not only that but also how Denver stood up for herself and made a choice where she had to leave her comfort zone and go look for a job to provide food for her mother and herself. If Beloved had not been in the picture none of this would’ve been possible. I feel like Tony Morrison deliberately wanted to show us that the presence of Beloved caused harm but more than that it helped Denver to make herself more independent. The society also came into one, helping Sethe, they were upset about not helping her that time when the schoolteacher had come to take her and her children as a slave. They regretted the idea that they kept quiet at that time, more of they felt in some way it would have never come to a point where Sethe had to kill her child if they had warned her or alerted her in the past.

Return of Beloved bought the community together and giving Denver a strength in becoming independent. It was also not so shocking when Beloved disappeared because it felt right, she was like a person sent by God to help Sethe and the others to come into place. It was like a mission, and once it was over she left. It was forgotten that Beloved returned from the other side but did leave an impact on Sethe. However, it is normal because she was still a mother and that is normal for a mother to feel down when a child is lost.

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