The Importance Of Color Red In Nathaniel Morrison's Beloved

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The love of a mother is the most powerful feeling any person can give or receive, but then the most torturous thing that can harm practically any person not only in a physical way, but in this case, it is more of a mental way which is the memories of someone’s past and the major things they have had to overcome in their lives which made or shaped them into who they are. Even though most of us are aware or can agree knowing that the hardest thing to do is to forget a person who has given you so much to remember.
By keeping themselves-meaning Sethe and Denver from the novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison-isolated from everyone else or maybe in fact everyone else keeping their distance from them because no one dares to interact with either of them as they lived in a two story house in Ohio. The color red is also mentioned multiple times
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Red is commonly known to be seen or represent something bad or evil for example, in The Scarlet Letter a young woman named Hester Prynne is an adulteress who was suppose to be executed ended up having to wear a letter sewed onto her chest which is the letter A. And of course, the

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