Passion between sisters in Beloved From the beginning of Beloved, I found something very striking in Denver's manner towards Beloved. She is extremely possessive of her sister, not allowing Sethe to help care for the young woman when she is ill. She cherishes her time alone with Beloved while Sethe is at work at the restaurant more than anything in her life at that moment. She is driven by a thirst to know the mysterious story of her sister; a hunger that cannot be satisfied by her answers to the simple questions of Sethe and Paul D. She also appears completely destroyed, throwing herself into a blinding and violent rage in the middle of the cold house, when she believes herself abandoned by the third and most precious of his siblings. It is an attraction that obviously lies in something more complex and more difficult to understand than simple brotherly love; rather, it lies in the unsettling sense of desperation on Denver's part to become one with Beloved. Thus, when the author reveals that, when she was a child, Denver had taken “her mother's milk with her sister's blood” (152). we are surprised, but not necessarily surprised. What are the implications? Sure, all siblings share the same family blood, but what does it mean for someone to take that blood by mouth? This is very similar to the taking of the blood of Christ in the sacrament of communion. The wine that Catholics drink symbolizes the blood of Jesus, his death and the resulting gift of himself to us and for us. Accordingly, Catholics are expected, according to their religion, to live their lives in the manner of Christ, ultimately striving to be one with him; hungry for him. Denver, as a very young and innocent child, had desired her mother's milk and was instead fed the blood of her deceased sister. His hunger had been satisfied by the taste of his sister rather than that of his mother; an eternal bond was formed.