Beloved Romanen har dagbogens stemning af

Romanen har dagbogens stemning af uopsættelighed med lynnedslag af skarpe betragtninger

Vi flakser således med Reclus rundt i historien fra stenalderens hulemænd over den romerske hærfører Scipios badeture og videre op til forfatterens samtid

som er opsamlet gennem et liv dedikeret til naturen

they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality

but the car sank to the bottom

Beloved Romanen har dagbogens stemning afTerrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.