Responding and Reflecting 1

I find slavery to be a very cruel disgusting subject. It's not right to completely exile a group of people just because of their race. I can feel for Sethe and Paul D for what they had to go through at Sweet Home. The problem with slavery is that although it was abolished and is now illegal, the African American community still got treated differently for many years after. During the time period Beloved was written the African American community had been freed from slavery about 20 years before but now Sethe and her family have to adjust to their new life. Going from being a prisoner to your owner and having no say in what you do to then being free to do what you want would be a tough transition. I think this can be compared to me going off to college. I have lived under the roof of my parents house my whole life and now in three months I will leave them and head off to college by myself. Sethe and the other slaves probably had very mixed emotions about leaving. Although they are finally free, the slave plantation is the only life that they knew. I feel the transition into college will be very hard at the beginning. Not being able to see my friends and family that I have been with for so many years will be a hard transition. I know that I will make new friends at the University of Arizona but I will miss my life in California. Throughout the story characters have flashbacks to their life on the plantations as a slave. Although this was a very dark time in their life the characters can't just forget everything that happened. I know that I will never forget all the great times I've had at Summit even though I will be leaving everything behind to start a new life in college. I can relate to Sethe in the fact that i'm excited for this new chapter in my life as she was when she left Sweet Home to start a new life.