In chapter one, when the narrator talks about the preacher calling Sethe’s baby Beloved, the name they have chosen to engraved on her headstone. I feel that if this scene was never taking place, us as reader would have a different effect on the story. Later on as we read the story when Paul D, Sethe and Denver go to a carnival, they find a girl named Beloved. If we never knew that Sethe dead daughter name on the headstone was named Beloved, readers may not compare them as easily. However, theres a chance readers can still relate Sethe’s daughter and Beloved who was found. Many reader may find it just being a coincidence or many questioning the novel even more. Due to fact, Beloved mention things Sethe that she should not know about such as the Diamond earrings. It would be weird knowing a girl you invited in to your house know things about you then she should not have known.
The family, especially Denver find it strange of how close Beloved had a bond with Sethe, wanting to know everything about her. I felt that when they knew the girl name was Beloved they found a connection and some kind of comfort. This may not have happen if the two names were the same. From us as reader knowing the name are same, it is easier for us to make a connection. From the information that is providing for us in the novel, we are able to use context clues to try and figure the plot in the story.
When Beloved state points as in Chapter 8, she states,
Denver scooted a little closer. “What’s it like over there, where you were before? Can you tell me?” “Dark,” said Beloved. “I’m small in that place. I’m like this here.” She raised her head off the bed, lay down on her side and curled up. Denver covered her lips with her fingers. “Were you cold?” Beloved curled tighter and shook her head. “Hot. Nothing to breathe down there and no room to move in.” “You see anybody?” “Heaps. A lot of people is down there. Some is dead.”
Beloved talks as if she was dead, as if she was in coffin, buried, underground and was able to escape. These statement makes a reader think and question the story a lot. Just as when she knew about the diamond earrings stated above. Another situation in chapter 12, when Beloved went missing inside the cole house. How come Denver was not able to find her as if she was gone or even a ghost? I think know Beloved name plays a big role in the story. Without it there would be a bigger problem to this novel with the details that have us hanging now.
