Published in 1987, the novel【D6】________won Toni Morrison the Pulitzer Prize.Its main character is an【D7】________named Sethe.T

With the 1987 publication of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved, Toni Morrison established herself as one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. The tale of its main character, an ex-slave named Sethe, was inspired by a true story of a slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped from her owner in Kentucky in 1851, but was recaptured in Ohio. Before the actual recapture, when it was clear to her that she and her children would return to a life of slavery, she tried to kill her children as a means of sparing them the inevitable hardship and suffering that Garner knew too well. Garner succeeded in killing one of the children, and was imprisoned for the crime. In Morrison’ s novel, Margaret Garner’ s tragedy is fictionally recreated in the life of Sethe, an ex-slave haunted by her daughter’s death and befriended by a strange and beautiful young woman named Beloved. In Beloved, Morrison has created a powerful and enduring story based on two of the most unscientific things of all, love and redemption.