With Sethe Beloved was able to bring out the bad memories to start the healing process that Sethe desperately needed. For example, when Sethe was talking to Amy about healing, Amy said, “The more it hurts, the better. Nothing can heal without pain, you know” (92). Since Beloved had recalled the memories of Sweet Home, Sethe's childhood and that day, the teacher arrived. Sethe was able to begin to let go of her hurtful past and try to move forward towards a better future with Paul D and Denver. A future where Sethe is able to “gather together all the pieces of her that were beautiful and fine” (192) and put them back together to make herself whole again. Paul D was another person who Beloved seemed to have a negative impact on at first as she seemed to try to break the connection between Sethe and Paul D: "He wasn't nervous, he was being stopped" (136). For him, he felt like a rag doll: “She moved him. And Paul D didn't know how to stop him because he seemed to be moving himself” (134). However, it is easy to see that her seduction of Paul D. was to open his “tobacco box which was closed by rust” (137) to the place where his heart was located: “Red heart. Red heart. Red Heart” (138). His heart coming back to life was a sign