The pivotal scene of the Beloved is that Sethe’s murdering of her own daughter.  If she did not murder her child, the whole novel would lead to a different direction.  In other words, there would not be the baby ghost who haunted the house, Howard and Bugler would not run away, Sethe and Denver would not isolated in their own home, Paul D would not horrify and leave Sethe, and Sethe would not so obsess with Beloved. Sethe believed that the experience of being a slave is worse than the death. When Paul D argued her that her action was wrong to kill a child and there could be other way to protect her children. He also told her that the result of her action did not work because her two sons run away and one locked herself in the house. But she said that, “They ain’t at Sweet Home. Schoolteacher ain’t got em.” “It ain’t my job to know what’s worse. It’s my job to know what is and to keep them away from what I know is terrible. I did that. “That is why she chose to kill her child to protect them from brought them back to Sweet Home which she believed is worse than death.

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