Beloved By Tori Morrison A Book Of Ghosts With Love,...

The idea that everyone needs love, compassion, and the feeling of belonging prescribes to everyone. Everyone needs a family. Even ghosts. In the stories, novels, and poems that we have discussed in class, the ghosts are attached to family or to a specific loved one. Michael Newton tells us that this is true for all ghost stories. In Beloved by Tori Morrison, Beloved comes back to be with her family and to make a connection with her family. In The Readjustment by Mary Austin Emma Jeffries had come back from the dead to haunt her husband Sim. In Turn of the Screw by M.R James the valet and old governess comes back. Even Shakespeare intertwined ghosts with love in his play Macbeth. Every ghost story involves a family or significant other being haunted or watched over by a loved one. In Michael Newton’s Introduction to the Penguin Book of Ghost Stories, he states that â€Å"when ghosts come back they are attached to a person or place.† This is relevant in all of the storie s that we have discussed in class. The ghosts don t just come back to be back, they come back for a reason. In The Readjustment the wife comes back to haunt her husband because of the way he acted after she passed. In Beloved, Beloved comes back to be with her mother and the rest of her family. In Turn of the Screw, the valet and governess come back to be with the children that they watched her before passing. The ghosts were â€Å"stuck† in this world until they were able to say goodbye or hear what they needed to