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The theme of Beloved is revealed in the first few pages of the novel as Sethe wants to leave her house as well as the pain within it. Her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs tells her that "not a house in the country ain't packed to the rafters with some ....

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... to run away, which is in 1856, four years before the start of the Civil War. Sethe, Paul D., and Baby Suggs were all slaves on the same farm in Kentucky, which was ironically named Sweet Home, though for them, it was neither home nor sweet. Plot The plot of the novel is loosely based upon the life of a former slave named Margaret Garner, who tried to kill all of her children when they were captured by her slave owner, and she did succeed in killing one. When the novel begins, Sethe and her daughter, Denver, are living with the ghost of the baby Sethe killed when she was about to be recaptured. After another former slave, Paul D., arrives, ...