The tone of the novel Beloved is dark.  One example of how Morrison sets the tone occurs when she writes about Sethe's soul.  She writes, "Counting on the stillness of her own soul, she had forgotten the other one: the soul of her baby girl" (Morrison, p. 5). The story that unfolds is that of a murdered child.  Morrison forces the reader to come to terms with its unholy facts and non-facts.  Morrison suggests through her writing that there was more than one wrong committed. Slavery was the real culprit behind a child's death.