Beloved

I found the newspaper article that we read during class on Tuesday to be very interesting. As I've started to read Beloved I've tried to piece together who is who in the newspaper article and the novel. I believe that Sethe killed the baby that haunts her home and that Denver was the newly born infant in the newspaper clipping. The novel is confusing with the non-linear plot, but I've caught on to the gist of the novel. My question during class was how Sethe was found by the schoolteacher and how she ended up getting her children back to Baby Shugg's home. Somehow, she managed to avoid going back to the plantation, but ended up in jail. The only explanation I can think of for this is that Sethe killed the schoolteacher, because even if she had mouthed off to him, she would have been whipped and sent back to the plantation. Also, I want to know where Halle plays into all of this. Is he dead or did he just leave Sethe? Could he have left her because of the incident that sent her to jail? If he did leave, then I think he is a coward just like her two sons. There is almost nothing positive about any man in the novel, except for Paul D, but even he scared away the ghost that kept Denver company.