Throughout the novel "Beloved", Toni Morrison, the author, has used the setting of this book to keep the reader not only engaged, but lost and discarded in an extraterrestrial environment. By using the past and giving the reader pieces of the past to show why the future is starting to change. In addition to Toni's use of setting, she also gave special meaning to the ghost of house 124. The setting of the story is rather mysterious, but tense. The story begins in a haunted house where a mother named Sethe and her daughter Denver carry the burden of the ghost called Beloved. The setting of the characters living in this house gave the reader a supernatural feeling from the beginning of the novel. From every flashback of Sethe's life to the smallest moment of the life she had, Toni Morrison takes the reader back to a confusing moment that forces the reader to evaluate the roots of Sethe's life. Each setting revealed something different about the main character Sethe. The sets revealed the impact Baby Suggs had on Sethe's life, as well as the feelings she had towards the ...