1. Redemption And Community: Sethe's Search For Salvation In Beloved
... : "She did not tell them to clean up their lives or to go out and sin no more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. She told them the only grace they could have was the grace that they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it ... , though, who somehow thought, or so it seemed to them, that she was above their shared experience. Sethe then furthers her own isolation at the burial service for her dead baby. She and the community continue to shun each other. "The setting-up was held in the yard beca...
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