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What is your character’s background? What have they gone through before their main interactions in the novel in 1983? What do we know about their history?

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What is your character’s background? What have they gone through before their main interactions in the novel in 1983? What do we know about their history?

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Paul D was a former slave who worked on a Sweet home which was a slave plantation. Paul D was abused and mistreated while he worked on the plantation and still has traumatizing memories from his time there. Pual D Attempts to leave sweet home with Sixo, a fellow slave at the plantation and Sixo ends up getting caught and burned alive over a fire as a message along with punishment for acting and speaking out. After Pual attempted to escape he was punished by being sent to a labor camp and had a metal bit forced into his mouth like a horse as a form of torture. At the labor camp in Georgia, Pual continued to have traumatizing experiences. At the camp, he was locked together with hundreds of other prisoners and was abused by the jailers in sexual ways. One day when rained and the jail became muddy Paul was able to slip out of the jail and escape the labor camp. Paul then migrated to the north with hopes of a better life and finding Sethe, a fellow inmate at Sweet home back in Kentucky. When Paul D finally makes into freedom up north in Cincinnati where Sethe lives (124) he still remains deeply affected by his terrible past.

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Paul has strong relations to Sethe from their time together on the Sweet Home plantation in Kentucky. When Paul gets sent to the labor camp and Sethe escapes to 124 in Cincinnati they are separated from each-other. Paul D later escapes the camp and ventures to the north the towards freedom. He meets up with Sethe again at 124 and he is introduced to Sethe's daughter Denver. Paul stays at 124 for a bit and shares romantic experiences with Sethe. Paul is later kicked out of 124 and lives by himself in a Church for a bit until he later speaks to Sethe while she is sick at the end of part three.

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"He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be. Its lid rusted shut" (86)

This is a defining quote about Paul D because it describes how he feels about his terrible past working on Sweet Home along with how he deals with his emotions. Instead of a heart Paul D keeps his memories and experiences from when he was enslaved in this tobacco tin. These tragic experiences  permanently shaped the person Paul D is today. Morrison adds that its lid is rusted shut to show that Paul doesn't like to open up about what he went through and chooses to keep these personal stories to himself. The tin being a Tobacco tin is likely a reference to the tobacco fields that Paul worked on while he was enslaved.

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While living on 124 Paul is introduced by Sethe to her other reincarnated child Beloved. Paul and Beloved start off on pretty bad terms where they both hate each other while fighting for Sethe's attention. Paul is eventually kicked out into the shed just outside of 124 where him and Beloved share an intimate experience. while Paul is in the shed Beloved comes in and has a sexual experience with Paul D. In this experience she tells Paul "You have to touch me. On the inside part. And you have to call me my name." (137, Morrison) Beloved later targets Paul D and drives him completely out of the house, shattering his hopes of a future with Sethe.

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Throughout the novel Paul D has a liking for Sethe and really hopes to have a future with her. He moves in with her at 124 hoping that they can grow intimate and ultimately be together, but Beloved gets in the way of that dream.

Paul D has a fear of school teacher and his experiences from when he was enslaved down south. Paul had traumatic experiences on Sweet home and when he later worked on the labor camp. He fears his freedoms being stripped from him once again along with ever having to work in those conditions.

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Toni Morrison is a novelist/Author/professor who is responsible for a Nobel Prize along with a Pulitzer Prize. She was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931 and was one of four children. Morrison graduated Lorain High School in 1949 and perused her academics at famous HBCU Howard University. After she graduated Howard university she continued with her education at Cornell University where she gained her masters degree in 1955. Morrison later became a professor at Texas Southern University and later returned back to Howard University in 1957 to teach english. Morrison then went on to write her own novels, many of which are award winning. Toni Morrison later died on August, 5, 2019 in her residence in New York, New York.