Beloved

In Beloved written by Toni Morrison, Sethe is an ex-slave who escaped from the farm to save her children's lives. Although she is free from slavery, she is not really free from the rest of her life and the problems that come with it. To escape slavery and keep her children from being forced back into slavery, Sethe kills her daugther, Beloved, so that she won't have to suffer. 17 years later, Beloved comes back to Earth and starts ruining Sethe's life. Although Sethe has literally been freed, she is not free from the consequences that come back to haunt her after killing her daughter. She is also not free from the guilt she feels for taking her daughter's life, although she knows that it was the only way she could save her from a life of slavery.