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Actually, people know very little about the black women, and about the troubles they met and the respect they should get in their work, in their marriage, in their character as a mother, in their spiritual life and their belief. Morrison always tries to express to other people that though the black women have a tragic life they never give up their faith in self-growth, and though their growing process is full of difficulties, they finally build themselves up, and bravely face the present and the future.

I. The Tragedy and Growth of the Black Women
A. The Tragedy of the Black Women
Morrison chooses the 124 house on Bluestone 本论文由英语论文网 www.51lunwen.org整理提供Road in Cincinnati as the scene of the story. The time is 1873. Although it was 18 years ago when she escaped from the Sweet Home and killed her daughter. It was still a strong memory in Sethe’s mind. At the beginning of the fiction, it said that “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.” But “by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were its only victims.” (Morrison 3). The baby ghost was always in the house. It speeded the Grandmother’s death, and made the little daughter Denver eccentric. The whole story begins with a mysterious ambience, and it is even like a ghost story. In Morrison’s mind, brutal act from human being is crueler than slavery itself, so she bitterly attacks it and describes the real situation of black slaves in the world:
White people believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood. The more colored people spent their strength trying to convince them how gentle they were, how clever and loving, how human, the more they used themselves up to persuade whites of something Negroes believed could not be questioned, the deeper and more tangled the jungle grew inside. The screaming baboon lived under their own white skin; the red gums were their own. (Morrison 198)
In Beloved, the schoolteacher is a typical本论文由英语论文网 www.51lunwen.org整理提供 white man; he seems to be impartial and objective. But what he and his nephews did was really brutal: in order to do so-called research, he used to gauge the black slaves, like the draught animals. One of the nephews had nursed Sethe while his brother held her down. The white people do good or evil things just as they like, and the black people have no choices, but receive all. With the coming of the modern society, the scientific and democratic spirit has been put around the United States, but never the Africa-Americans. The ghosts of the black slaves are the irrefutable evidence. Morrison once said, her works are for the black people themselves. The black people should love themselves; especially the black women need do so.
In Beloved, Sethe has to kill her daughter, and undoubtedly that’s a big tragedy. Besides, Beloved herself is a tragedy too. She comes to this world at a wrong time, and is killed by her mother. When she comes back, she is treated as an evil. At the end of the Beloved, Morrison writes:
Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they know her name? Although she has claim, she id not claimed. In the place where long grass opens, the girl who waited to be loved and cry shame erupt