An important character in Beloved is Beloved. She becomes the symbol for the pain of the black community that suffers from the horrors and pain of slavery and racism and then is tossed aside and forgotten. Beloved, first a baby ghost and then a reincarnated eighteen-year-old girl, comes back to haunt the mother who murdered her. Beloved was deprived of nurturing as an baby and feels betrayed by her mom; all she yearns for is love. She is so demanding of her mother’s emotions that Sethe has nothing left over for Denver or herself. Throughout the novel, Beloved is “different” to everyone who comes into contact with her. For Sethe, she represents a chance for her to redeem her past actions. For Denver, she provides friendship and a break from her lonely, isolated existence. For Paul D, she becomes a lover. For the community, she is an embodiment of all the infants and children who were cast away from the slave ships and from slave mothers who wanted to resist against slavery.