Reporter: Suzhien Carpio Subject: Literary Criticism Instructor: Mrs. Yolanda Reyes Course: English Education

1. Summary
Beloved
Toni Morrison

2. Part 1
124 was spiteful.

3. - After the two sons of Sethe,
Howard and Buglar ran away
because of the encounter of the
baby ghost and the death of Baby
Suggs, there was only Denver and
Sethe living in 124.

4. - Paul D and Sethe
got reunited

5. - It was now Sethe, Paul
D, and Denver living in
124.

6. - Starting all over again as
a family, Paul D chased
the ghost away.

7. - Just when the ghost was
gone, Beloved appeared in
the story

8. - Paul didnt like Beloved, unlike
Denver and Sethe who
welcomed her warmly and let
her stay in 124 indefinitely

9. - Aside from the baby like
characteristics of Beloved and her
age, she used to ask questions that
only the murdered child of Sethe
could ask, making Denver believe
that she is her sister.

10. - Paul D, started to feel
uneasy in 124 with the
presence of Beloved

11. - He used to sleep with
Sethe, then to the rocking
chair, next to Baby Suggs'
room until he decided
sleeping in the store room

12. - Beloved seduced Paul D
and they had sex to fully
isolate him to Sethe

13. - Paul D tried to confess to Sethe,
but he ended up telling Sethe he
wanted her pregnant (so as to
have a hold onto her)

14. - Stamp Paid showed Paul
D the newspaper where
the crime of Sethe was
published

15. - Although he didnt believe
it, he confronted Sethe.
Hearing it from Sethe, he
moved out of the house
with disgust

16. Part 2
124 was loud.

17. - Stamp regretted showing Paul D
the newspaper .He tried to visit
124 but didnt have the guts to
face Sethe . During that visit he
saw the new girl in 124, Beloved.
Stamp visited Ella and was told
that Paud D was staying in the
basement of the local church.

18. - Stamp paid told Ella
about the new girl
he saw in 124.

19. - Stamp paid went to the church
to see Paul D - They talked and
Stamp asked him about the
new girl he saw in 124 - Paud
D told him that the girl came
from nowhere and has no
memory

20. - Stamp told Paul about the story
of this woman locked inside a
house by a white man. Later, the
man was found dead and the
woman was gone. Stamp made a
conclusion: 'It must be her.'

21. - However Sethe heard Beloved
hum a familiar tune. A song
she only knows and used to
sing to her children. Making
Sethe believed that Beloved
has really come back.

22. Part 3
124 was quiet.

23. - After Paul D moved out of the
house, the relationship of
Beloved and Sethe become
intense. Sethe would spend most
of her time with Beloved so she
comes to work always late. Sethe
was fired from her work. Having
no source of income hunger
strikes in.

24. - They become dependent
to whatever's left until
everything was gone.

25. - Beloved was the priority,
she became abusive. She
gets the best of everything
first. Beloved gets bigger
and bigger resembling a
pregnant woman.

26. - Denver steps out of the house to
ask for help, she went to Lady
Jones (her teacher before). She
asks for food. She didnt mention
anything about Beloved, instead
she told them her mother was
sick so she herself needs a job.

27. - The neighborhood
started to deliver sacks
of food in front of 124

28. - Denver went next to the
Bodwins where she talked
to Janey (the servant) and
asks to work. Janey spread
the news about the return
of Beloved to make Sethe
pay

29. - Ella and the rest of
the women came
over to 124 and
pray.

30. - Sethe and Beloved where
standing in front of the house.
Mr. Bodwin came to fetch
Denver to work when Sethe
saw him and thought he was
schoolteacher. Sethe tried to
kill him with an icepick.

31. - Beloved just
disappeared

32. - Denver became an
independent woman. She’s
working now with the
Bodwins and looking
forward in entering
College.

33. - Paul D comes back to
124 to check on Sethe
after Beloved was
gone.

34. - Beloved was soon
forgotten by the
people just like a bad
dream.

35. Prepared by: Suzhien Carpio
BSE IV - English