Morrison's Beloved uses the characters in its story to show the long-term effects of slavery. Characters like Sethe, Denver, and Beloved all show a different perspective on the effects of slavery and the life it can conjure up for an overprotective mother, a hermit daughter, and a mischievous ghost. For example, Paul D tells Sethe “Your love is too thick,” (164) which shows Paul D's view of love not as liberal as Sethe's, he believes that love also has rules and restrictions. Using the word “too much” exemplifies his expression of limiting love because it can hurt you. This maybe a male like slave mentality of not loving anything too much or when he is gone you are susceptible to whatever happens. For Sethe, love is something that cannot be compromised or forced, it is free and unlimited. “I stopped him,” (164) Sethe tells Paul D explaining how she stopped the school teacher. Sethe's unconditional love gave her the idea to kill her children to stop the teacher. As mentioned before, her liberal thoughts on love drag her into a rock and a hard place. Sethe can choose between giving up her children or killing them, this shows that Sethe's love is not only unlimited but paradoxical, if you truly love someone you wouldn't hurt them let alone kill them, but if you love someone you wouldn't put them in obvious danger . Denver, lucky enough to escape the life of slavery, lives a lonely life because of it. “She was so happy that she didn't even know she was being shunned by her classmates.”(101) As a young girl Denver is charismatic in learning like her father, this took Denver's attention away from her being shunned. The effects of slavery affect the innocent young and the wise old men, as Denver is too young to understand which murder occurred... middle of paper... appeared in the cake (it was that way for Howard). " (p. 1) Not only was Beloved destroyed, but because of her cut short life she was beginning to become spiteful and destroy the normal family life Sethe had run away for. Now everything Sethe had risked her life twice for was becoming useless. "Relying on the immobility of his soul, he had forgotten the other:” . Being the other obviously Beloved soul, Sethe thought nothing of the fact that the child was alone in death. Perhaps being together in slavery would have brought them together, not just Beloved but Denver and Sethe. Beloved's death brought a shower of melancholy among 124. Not only was Beloved angry, the house gained a reputation for having an angry ghost and the mad slavery pushed a woman to take a life, but she destroyed the support of a community, the support of the family and the self-support of oneself.