Throughout the novel "Beloved", Toni Morrison, the author, has used the setting of this book to keep the reader not only engaged but also lost and thrown in an alien environment. Using the past and giving the reader pieces of the past to show why the future begins to change. In addition to the use of setting, Toni also gave special meaning to the ghost in house 124. The setting of the story is quite mysterious, but at the same time tense. The story first begins in a haunted house where a mother named Sethe and her daughter Denver harbor the burden of the ghost named Beloved. The setting of the characters living in this house gave the reader a supernatural atmosphere right from the beginning of the novel. From every flashback of Sethe's life to the smallest fragment of the life she once had, Toni Morrison thrusts the reader into a disconcerting moment that forces them to evaluate the roots of Sethe's life. Each setting reveals something different about the main character Sethe. The settings revealed how Baby Suggs affected Sethe's life, as well as her feelings towards him. ...