Beloved - Memory, Rememory, and the Power of the Past

In chapter 9 of Beloved, Sethe goes to the Clearing, a place Baby Suggs went to pray, to sit and remember her. She remembered Baby Suggs church-like "service" where men, woman, and children would gather to listen to her speak. She also went there to pay tribute to her husband Halle, who had mysteriously dissappeared. Denver and Beloved followed close behind her. The silence of Sethe's prayer is interrupted by Denver and Beloved running up to her after she is mysteriously being choked. Beloved points out bruises on Sethe's neck and procedes to massage it. Sethe decides to go back to the house  and as she walks back she starts thinking about what happened that day. She wonders about Beloved and reveals "the suspicion of the girl's touch was almost exactly like the baby's ghost dissipated." Sethe remembers that Beloved was agitated, behaving like a two year old. The connections Sethe makes between Beloved and her child whom had died can not just be coincidental. Because Sethe can remember what happened in the past and connect Beloved's characteristics to the characteristics of her dead baby it helps her in her attempts to figure out why Beloved came to them. I believe that in the end the characters' memories and rememories will help them get to the bottom of what's really going on with Beloved.