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Pg. 185 - “So Stamp did not tell him how she flew, snatching up her children like a hawk on the wing; how her face beaked, how her hands worked like claws…”

Pg. 119 - “Beloved went to look, pausing to watch a cardinal hop from limb to branch. She followed the blood spot shifting in the leaves until she lost it and even then she walked on, backward, still hungry for another glimpse.”

Pg. 148 - “He, he. He who had eaten raw meat barely dead, who under plum trees bursting with blossoms had crunched through a dove’s breast before its heart stopped beating.”

Pg. 191 - Paul D wasn't able to love the “mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon” in Alfred, Georgia because they were owned by "men who had the guns."

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"Unless carefree, motherlove was a killer" (155).

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"Unless carefree, motherlove was a killer" (155).

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-Denver has a part of her younger sister in her (literally and figuratively)
-Maternal instinct - feed the child

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-Minding their own business?
-Wings of hummingbhird

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Tin box symbolism - tobacco?

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Before she was defined by her husband - “Halle’s girl was obedient (like Halle), shy (like Halle), and work-crazy (like Halle)" (193). Now Paul D realizes that this Sethe was "new".

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-Motherly love?
-Pure psycho

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-motif

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“...to get to a place where you could love anything you chose—not to need permission for desire—well now, that was freedom" (191).

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Sethe's been deprived of motherly love all her life (especially from her own mother) so her instincts are stronger

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-symbolism?

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-red haired boy
-yellow haired girl
-red blood
-cover of book is red and yellow?????

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-The big lavish feast Baby Suggs had

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Sethe's motherly instincts - how she is almost overly trusting due to those instincts (especially with Beloved); she has this great connection with Paul but the minute she sees Beloved cold, she has to do something about that

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-motif.. what does it mean

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- The iron in her eyes got knocked out/ died
- "the hot sun dried Sethe's dress, stiff, like rigor mortis" (pg 180)
-Furthering the fact that something inside Sethe died

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Juxtaposition between the "cheery blue sky" and Sethe going to jail for murdering her baby (179)

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-Avoiding the truth
-Looking at the water not the road

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Concept of masculinity - seen in Paul D, Four Horsemen (specifically of the nephew); how does this contribute to internal conflict

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-Pictures herself in a dark place (death)
-In the shed, where Sethe killed the baby

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The circle made by Sethe - what does this symbolize

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-Running circles around her actual problems

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Importance of the sense of touch as a form of intimacy or humanity. Pg. 177 - "And he didn’t want to touch anything.” - sheriff wants to leave the shed, emotionally separate himself from such a horrific scene

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Slaves constantly referred to as animals

Sethe compared to animal

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Mixture of blood and breast milk -- what does this mean/symbolize

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-Paul D compares her act of killing her daughter something an animal would do, like she gave in to the way whites view blacks (like animals)
-Hiding in her cave (124)

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Unable to take a head role as the man in the family

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Importance of the numbers/ Paul D saying Sethe had other options rather than killing

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Number four symbolizes death

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Likens Sethe to an Animal. Highlights his own internal struggle. Previously Paul D struggled to accept he was a human, rather than just an animal as slavery made him out to be.

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What is the significance of the repetition of shoes?

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What is the significance of the repetition of shoes?

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Blackberries can be a symbolism of baptism, cleansing of Christ's blood, Denver was not killed by Sethe bc she was saved by Stamp Paid (fed her blackberries)

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Why doesn't she kill Denver? Is it impossible for her to kill her?

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Why doesn't she kill Denver? Is it impossible for her to kill her?

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The pigs that crowd the city's ports and slaughterhouses are described in similar terms as the slaves - connection to the slaughter of Sethe's children

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Possible connection to baptism/rebirth, means its winter which symbolizes death, foreshadows break-up between Sethe Paul D

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Conquest, War, Famine, Death

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Why tell the passage from the perspective of 4 white men?

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Why tell the passage from the perspective of 4 white men?

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Someone must have told the four horsemen that Sethe was at 124 after becoming jealous of the supper (feast) that Baby Suggs had-- akin to the betrayal revealed in the Last Supper

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The abundance of the feast is like a sin of pride or gluttony. Why is this feast likened to biblical stories altogether?

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When Beloved loses her tooth she doesn't cry until Denver asks why she doesn't cry. 

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When Beloved loses her tooth she doesn't cry until Denver asks why she doesn't cry. 

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Fish and Bread referenced when Baby Suggs starts the feast

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Schoolteacher, nephew, slave catcher, and sheriff

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- Why does Paul D. keep focusing on the mouth of the woman on the newspaper?

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Denver shares the blood of her dead sister when she drinks Sethe's milk

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-black after she kills the baby, which was foreshadowed when Paul D came back from Sweet Home and noticed Paul D's eyes

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When baby ran she kept her name, when Sethe ran she changed her name when she talked to Amy.

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When baby ran she kept her name, when Sethe ran she changed her name when she talked to Amy.

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What does this say about their characters

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Why hummingbirds?

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- Repetition of "beg your pardon"
- Desperation of losing another one of her (grand)children, asking for forgiveness when her children were taken away

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Sethe doesn't factor in the good things in life when she decides to kill her children. She only tries to save them from schoolteacher but there are other bad things in the world, possibly worse, that she can't save them from when she sends her boys away.

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Multiple mentions - Baby Suggs's shoe repair, Beloved's new shoes, Sethe looking at Paul D all the way to his feet

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Paul D - Love "thinly" to protect oneself
Sethe's love is "too thick"

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Why was the passage about slaughtering children so clinical?

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Why was the passage about slaughtering children so clinical?

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Sethe circles the room when she tells Paul D and circles around the main point in the story
-She doesn't get right to the point but draws it out

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Why were sweet home men treated like men not slaves?

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Why were sweet home men treated like men not slaves?

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Forest that springs up between Sethe and Paul D - connection to forest that Sethe walked through before giving birth?

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- School teacher ironically uses religon as a justification towards the mistreatment of slaves, says how God gave them the responsibility
- Similar to Anse and Cora from "As I Lay Dying" who used religon in a superficial way

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Baby Suggs name- symbolism of the name- "god is gracious"
Baby Suggs believes that yes, god is gracious, but it is your responsibility to do something with the life that god has so graciously given you.

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When Stamp paid talks about the berries the second time, his story resembles the story of the Apple of Eden and temptation. (p. 181-186)