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Sethe and her daughter, Denver, live in 124, a house haunted by a mischievous baby ghost.
Part 1, Chapter 1Paul D, who knew Sethe 18 years before, arrives, banishes the ghost, and moves in.
Part 1, Chapter 1Sethe remembers killing her daughter to keep her from returning to slavery.
Part 1, Chapter 16Paul D confronts Sethe, who confesses the murder, and Paul D moves out.
Part 1, Chapter 18Beloved hums a song that Sethe made up; Sethe realizes Beloved is her dead daughter.
Part 2, Chapter 19Sethe and Denver are starving; Beloved demands all the food and attention.
Part 3, Chapter 26Denver visits Lady Jones about a job; Denver tells her about Beloved. The news spreads.
Part 3, Chapter 26The neighbor women march to 124 to expel the ghost; Beloved vanishes.
Part 3, Chapter 26| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Part 1, Chapter 1 | 124 Bluestone Road has been haunted for years by the ghost of a baby that is furious at "having its throat cut." The set... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 2 | Paul D can't believe his luck at finding Sethe, a woman whom he had always desired. Sethe and he have quick sex, followe... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 3 | Denver recalls a time when she left her safe place in the woods, a ring of five boxwood bushes that form a little room. ... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 4 | Denver asks Paul D how long he is going to stay, which causes him to ask Sethe if he should leave. Even Sethe is surpris... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 5 | A woman of 19 or 20 walks from the stream near 124 and sits down, leaning against a tree "all day and all night" as her ... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 6 | Beloved is entranced by Sethe. Out of nowhere she asks where Sethe's diamonds are. Sethe is so amazed that she wants to ... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 7 | Paul D has strange feelings about Beloved. He wonders why Sethe and Denver accept her so readily and unquestioningly whe... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 8 | Just a few minutes after Beloved was choking on the raisin, she and Denver are in Denver's room dancing. When they final... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 9 | Sethe decides it is time to take Baby Suggs's advice and "to lay it all down" and find peace. She reminisces about how h... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 10 | Chapter 10 represents a flashback to the time when Paul D was forced to work on a chain gang after trying to kill the ne... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 11 | Paul D is gradually moving out of 124. He ends up sleeping in the storeroom, where Beloved visits him and coerces him in... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 12 | Denver wrestles with her relationship with Beloved: she craves her attention and only occasionally gets it, and then une... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 13 | Paul D recalls thinking that he was one of only five blacks in Kentucky who were "men" because Garner had trusted them a... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 14 | After Paul D and Sethe go upstairs to bed, Beloved asks Denver to make Paul D go away, but Denver is afraid Sethe will b... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 15 | In a flashback, the reader learns that, in the days after Sethe and her children showed up at 124, Baby Suggs was afraid... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 16 | As the flashback continues, four men come to 124: schoolteacher (the slave owner at Sweet Home who replaced Mr. Garner),... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 17 | Paul D is looking at a photograph in a newspaper clipping, saying, "That ain't her mouth." He can't read, but he knows i... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 18 | Paul D confronts Sethe with the clipping, expecting her to laugh, but instead Sethe explains what happened. She spins ar... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 19 | Stamp Paid hears loud voices as he approaches 124. He feels responsible for Paul D moving out and has come to check on S... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 20 | Sethe believes that her baby daughter has come back to her in the flesh. In her mind, she explains to Beloved why she ki... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 21 | In this chapter Denver takes her turn at sharing her thoughts and feelings with the reader. Denver begins by acknowledgi... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 22 | In a stream of "baby talk," Beloved describes being one with Sethe. She is crouching in cramped quarters with others, so... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 23 | This chapter continues Beloved's stream-of-conscious narration as she recalls the dead men being shoved into the sea. Se... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 24 | Memories of the past come flooding back to Paul D as he sits on the front porch of the church where he has taken refuge ... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 25 | Stamp Paid apologizes to Paul D because no one has taken him in and tells him he can stay with any black person in town.... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 26 | At 124 the three women are starving. Sethe and Beloved don't care. It began when Sethe saw the scar on Beloved's neck. A... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 27 | Paul D and Stamp Paid return to 124. Here Boy, the aged family dog, is back, so Paul D knows that Beloved is really gone... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 28 | The people of Bluestone Road forget Beloved "like a bad dream." Sometimes they are reminded of her, but they choose not ... Read More |
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