Beloved Section II

Within section II of Beloved, the reader is exposed to a radical perspective change into the first-person mind of Sethe, Denver and Beloved. With this perspective change, the reader is given some new insight into head of all three characters, but I found Denver's thoughts to be the most eyeopening. We begin to see that this entire time Denver has been fearful of her mother, and never truly accepted her back. Denver tells of how she is almost tortured by the thought that, "the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again" (205). We then see why Denver never leaves 124, because she feels like she must, "watch over the yard, so it can't happen again and my mother won't have to kill me too" (205). We are given this new perspective from Denver which paints Sethe in a very untrustworthy and dangerous light, one we have not been familiar with throughout the entirety of the novel up to this point.