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What is the significance of both Stamp Paid and Baby Suggs giving themselves their own names?

Question Description

Read Toni Morrison’s Beloved and answer the following questions. Be sure to give strong, defensible support for your answers.

  1. What is the significance of both Stamp Paid and Baby Suggs giving themselves their own names?
  2. Healing is a common motif in this novel. Explain how a character was healed spiritually and another was healed physically.
  3. Why does Morrison write that because of the strict control of the slave master, Sethe’s children “weren’t hers at all”?
  4. How does Sethe justify the murder of Beloved?