Reading Beloved by Toni Morrison and Don Quixote by Kathy Acker, there seem to be some similarities in the themes and characters contained in these texts, the most prevalent of which seems to be of love and of language as a path to freedom. We see in Acker's Don Quixote the abortion he must have before embarking on the search for true freedom, which is to love. Similarly, in Morrison's Beloved, there is a kind of abortion, Sethe's killing of Beloved, which results in and from the freedom that true love provides. And in both texts, the characters look for answers and solutions in these "forms of words" called language. In Acker's Don Quixote, the abortion with which the novel opens is a precondition for surrendering to the "constructed self." For Acker, the woman on the abortion table on which a team of doctors and nurses work represents, in the ultimate sense, the woman as a constructed object. The only hope is to somehow take control, to subvert the identity constructed to give oneself a name: "He had to give himself a name. When a doctor sticks a steel catheter in you while you are lying on your back and you; finally , fortunately, you let go of your mind. To let go of your mind is to die" (Don Quixote 9-10). And he will have to give himself a man's name – become a man – before the nobility and dangers of his trials will be appreciated. She will have to be a knight committed to the noble quest to love "someone other than herself" and thus to right all wrongs and be truly free. In another of Acker's works he writes: "Having an abortion was obviously like getting fucked. If we closed our eyes and spread our legs, they would cure us. They stripped us of our clothes...... half of the paper...... end of the text of a the community comes into contact with a "language of its own", while Acker's protagonist subverts the texts to find or create something so "primitive". Don Quixote is much more easily paired with the ghost of Beloved. Both are looking for a language they can use, understand and know the "forms of words" that are given to them. Both are looking for love and freedom that are not a product of "slavery". identity. This is not the product of an “abortion.” They are both childish but at the same time adults, trying to understand and neither asks for or offers forgiveness .Ed Mack, Maynard et al. W. W. Norton and Co. New York, NY. 1992.Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York, Penguin Books USA Inc, 1988.