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Beloved themes, With your group, come up with at least one theme within…

- - - - past experiences can take over
        
        Baby Suggs giving up and going to bed
  - - - Sethe tells Denver that Sweet Home will "happen to her" even if it's gone
    - - Sethe passes on to Denver a refusal to leave 124
- - - - Stamp Paid
    - - Pauls
  - - - Trauma takes away from a sense of self
        
        Beloved causes Sethe's identity to wither
      - Can cause people to hold on to things that make them feel like autonomous subject
        
        Sethe holding onto Beloved after being enslaved
- - - - Can be both blood and "chosen"; family as a choice
        
        The shadows at the carnival
  - - - Sethe's relationship to baby ghost
- - - - Losing Beloved (both times)
  - - - Beloved herself
  - - - "Good" treatment does not excuse or negate objectification
        
        ex: Paul D. realizing that Mr. Garner was no better than schoolteacher
  - - - Beloved controlling Sethe's emotions and Sethe not realizing it