Which slave's story inspired the novel that beings the "trilogy" that, according to Toni Morrison, Paradise completes?
Beloved (novel) Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War (1861–65), it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After 28 days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Sethe kills her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured and taken back to Sweet Home, the Kentucky plantation from which Sethe recently fled. A woman presumed to be her daughter, called Beloved, returns years later to haunt Sethe's home at 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati, Ohio. The story opens with an introduction to the ghost: "124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom."
Three Strikes (comics) Three Strikes is a black & white comic book series from Oni Press written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, featuring art by Brian Hurtt. Three Strikes is a crime drama about Rey Quintana, a young man with a troubled past who is trying to make something of his life when he makes a bad decision and shoplifts a present for his girlfriend. Sentenced to more than 20 years for his minor crime due to California's "Three Strikes And You're Out" laws, Rey goes on the run. The story is also about bounty hunter Noah Conway, an ex-cop who has screwed up his personal life and who has no sympathy for lawbreakers like Rey. When Rey goes on the run, Noah is hired to bring him in, and the two men both undergo radical transformations as one hunts the other.