Reflecting and Responding: Women Power

Sethe has become a strong women figure throughout the book. She demonstrates how it's possible to raise a family independently. Shes not the only female figure that remains strong though the book but also Denver and Baby Suggs. Throughout the book all female figures have remained strong giving each other support. Sethe tells Denver that when Sethe was about to give birth to Denver a white girl named Amy found Sethe in pain on the side of the road. Sethe explains that Amy didn't hesitate to help her. Even though they are not the same skin color Amy makes sure she has her baby and  that it able to restore her health. Amy could have easily left Sethe to suffer but she didn't. Many women around the world unite forces to defeat the stereotypes society has them placed. In Beloved it

illustrates the power of the women that women don’t have to rely on anyone to become a great success.

Sethe in the book is an independent women that is raising all her children because her husband Halle had died and she had no one but she herself. She had to learn how to confront her own struggles and Beloved and 124 being some them. She adored her daughter Beloved but the choice she took in killing her wasn't easy but it was the easiest solution in order to prevent Beloved from a miserable life. Her actions are reflective of how she had to make her own decisions without anyone’s opinion and demonstrates how capable she is with situations like these.

In 124 there is a dark force that doesn't allow people to approach it. The house is very isolated but Sethe, Denver, and Baby Suggs remain there. In the beginning of the book the house became too much for Denver she couldn't resist it was too much for her. She began acting weird and even threatened Sethe that she would run away. Sethe then knocked some sense into her and made her realize that was her home. Baby Suggs ends of leaving her full life and dying in 124. For Sethe there is nothing that can separate her from her home. All the female characters in the book are capable of resisting the dark force but the male figures cannot. Buglar and Howard end up running away from the house and Paul ends up leaving to because he can't take it anymore. Throughout the book women ally together to show women are stronger when they are together and also shows that women internally are stronger then men because they can handle more fear.