To find love and feel supported or not alone in this messy world is most rewarding. However, this love can be lost unwillingly. This is why unconditional love is so precious to individuals; it risks being lost in the events of life leaving a major void in our hearts. Moses a slave in the Jones’s novel had this support and unconditional love, what he had was Bessie. Bessie was his home in a world where he was not to have a home; he wasn’t supposed to feel loved or of any worth much less a person. He and Bessie were torn apart against their greatest wills , “we together, her and me, Don’t pull us apart. We together…” (172). With Bessie ripped apart from him he was denied his volitional necessity to love her much like society denied Calvin the opportunity to love …show more content…
In being denied a voliotional necessity the light of life seems to be smuthered and for Moses it was, this is depicted as he enters “his cabin and met the darkness and a dead hearth” (9). In his digression as a person he forgets how to love and this is seen by his misuse of love with Caldonia as he uses her to potentially reach power and wealth. His life lost what made it meaningful all chance of happiness or at least contentment “A hearty laugh drifted out of the lane but by the time it reached him there was no life in it” (329). His exterior much like Henry’s appears to be cold, and unkind, a sort of villian. However, he too like Henry deserves love and compassion equally as everyother person who lives and breaths on the Earth. He needed the light of love to guide him back to his best self, or his beautiful essence. Even if in the end he can never accept the love he still deserves the opportunity to be able to accept it “He liked knowing the baby was there, though he had no power to turn and engage it in play or conversation” (388). Moses did not ask for what has happened to him, he had control over of how to react yet in a sense he