The ghost of the beloved One of the most engaging topics in the book Beloved by Toni Morrison focuses on the nature of the girl Beloved. The question is whether Beloved is simply a young woman who has suffered the horrors of slavery herself, or Sethe's ghost already crawling? girl. Does the evidence show that Morrison intended Beloved to already be the creeper's ghost? lass. It has been said that there are basically two reasons why ghosts walk: they have unfinished business to take care of or they have died a very violent death. Are you already crawling? the girl fits both of these profiles. She died without growing up, without knowing why she died. As a result, he has unfinished business with his mother, Sethe. Are you already crawling? the girl's death was also terribly violent. Her mother cut her throat with a saw in the cold shed, rather than return her and her children to slavery. Many of the clues that Beloved is actually the little girl's ghost are found in the passages where she first arrives. the house on Bluestone Road. Do each of these things put together support the idea that Toni Morrison intended Beloved to already be the ghost of the crawl? girl. The first clue is that "he had what looked like asthma," meaning his breathing was labored. If Beloved were the ghost, it would make sense that she would have difficulty breathing; after all, since the windpipe is located in the neck, and Beloved's neck was nearly severed, her windpipe would have to be severed as well. He would have rapid, raspy breathing, the way people with asthma have when they can't hold their breath. At the beginning of the book, Morrison talked about how the ghost slammed Here Boy into... middle of paper.... ..the bread that Baby Suggs gave her. The burnt pieces of the bottom of the bread might have reminded her of the river they had crossed to get to 124. The river might have looked black because they had crossed it at night. Once you add up all the information and count the clues, all the evidence points to the Beloved not being a real woman, but the spirit of the little girl coming to life. She could have reanimated the body from the hunter's cabin that Stamp Paid made a fleeting reference to, or perhaps she created the body herself, and that's why she was so worried it would collapse. It does not matter. What matters is that all the evidence points to Beloved somehow coming back to life. Is she really already the crawling ghost? little girl.Works cited:Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York, Penguin Books USA Inc, 1988.