Beloved Response to Chapters 6 to 8 Amy is my favorite character, if only because she's the only one so far that consistently

gives that warm and fuzzy feeling. She fills the role of the kind stranger. In fact, thinking about it, kind strangers play a large role in this novel because they some of the only support that the freed slaves had. Water seems to be intricately related to Beloved. She says that she came from the stream back in the woods. She could be talking about the place where Sethe gave birth to Denver, or she could be referring to the River Styx or something like it, which would explain why Denver asks if she saw Jesus or Baby Suggs while she was there. Furthermore, when Beloved first shows up, Sethe gets an intense urge to urinate, and Beloved has a ravenous thirst. Knowing that water often represents life, we could interpret this as Sethe getting rid of life, as she did when she presumably cut Beloved's throat, and Beloved taking in life after having risen from the dead. Beloved freaks me out. Whatever she is, she isn't human. There have been repeated mentions of her unusual eyes (Her eyes stretched to the limit, black as the all-night sky (88) and a line in an earlier chapter about how her eyes were expressionless). Why does she have an almost sexual obsession with Sethe, her mother (Sethe was licked, tasted, eaten by Beloved's eyes (68))? While we're on the subject, why does Beloved become perpetually aroused in Chapter 7? And what brings her from the dead? And why does she delight in sweets and stories of Sethe's life? As for this last question, my guess is that since she pretty much has no past, she is trying to fill the void, both physically and mentally.