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- Sweet Home represents slavery
- Sixo being burned
- boys being hung from
Sycamore trees
- Didn't get a proper wedding
- Sethe gets whipped and
physically abused
- 124 represents freedom:
- Baby Suggs boarded up the
"back door" so everyone could       enter in the front
- community gatherings and
presence/women sing
- Sethe reunites with her
children
- Employed
- Tree on her back is healing,     not raw

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Paul D and the struggle with letting out his emotions

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Paul D and the struggle with letting out his emotions

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Paul D does not recall the traumatic events that happened to him until later or unless he is forced to.
- Tobacco tin opens and secrets are spilled
- Holds back secrets from his past.

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when Denver leaves 124 to ask Mrs. Jones for works he is forced out of her secure home and to grow into her own person separate from her mother and Beloved

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It shows the trauma of lsavery in that they can try to escape their memories but, rather than being normal memories, they're recurring memories that are visceral and out of the control of the rememberer. They reflect Sethe and others' desire to escape the past but the trapping effect that it has on them

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Her discussion of her relationship with her mother and the death of her sister, as well as her description of her father, is colored by her ignorance of her mother's past ("I don't know what it is, I don't know who it is, but maybe there is something else terrible enough to make her do it again". Her narration of her father is purposefully unreliable as well: she idolizes him based upon Baby Suggs stories, etc

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- Paul D values being alone, others prove to be a burden to him
- Denver needs a companion, she desperately needs attention at all times

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As Paul D shares the suffering he experienced both on Sweet Home and after, one of the most degrading experiences is when he was forced to work with a bit in his mouth. The iron bit symbolizes dehumanization and loss of dignity

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Sethe's narration of Beloved's increasing dependence

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Sethe's narration of Beloved's increasing dependence

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- Sethe' narration accounts her relationship with her daughter as nurturing while outsiders see it as parasitic

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Denver's narration style here points mainly towards her ignorance toward what Sethe has experienced. She speaks selfishly and fearfully of her mother's actions toward her sister, and paints her father as a savior figure.

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While they could be seen as a symbol of strength for some (like Denver's secluded spot in the forest), they are also a symbol of pain and oppression for others (the scars, the trees with bodies hanging from them at Sweet Home). These "trees" or symbols of oppression stay and continue to grow with the people they impact.

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Beloved symbolizes a variety of things, each can be separately interpreted corresponding to each character, but some commonalities that she does hold as symbol is the idea of an inescapable and treacherous past of the life of slavery acting as a parasitic presence in events of the present

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In the chapter narrated by Denver, she talks about her mother father being a great strong man, basically asserting that he could solve all of the family's problems. Yet, Denver never met her father, bringing the reliability of this claim into question. She detracts from her mother and gives her no credit, yet Sethe is the one who cared for her and stayed by her side.

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The "crawling-already?" baby (Beloved when alive)

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The "crawling-already?" baby (Beloved when alive)

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As Beloved lacks a proper name (she only began being called "Beloved" after her death), she is referred to in narration only as "crawling-already?". This title symbolizes how separated Sethe feels from her, as she was unable to feed her her milk in her infancy and the baby has seemingly grown up without her

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The first day that Sethe is late to work is the beginning of her (destructive) devotion to her children. From then on, she puts her children above her own well-being and Beloved only grows more and more parasite in nature. This action shapes her character into an almost obsessive possession over her children which ultimately leads her to downfall and drives Denver out into the world.

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- emphasizes the horrors she had to endure during her time at sweet home, she was violated and used
-Reveals a lot abut her character; Sethe focuses on her milk being stolen over anything else showing how motherhood is a main priority in her life and ideals

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The tobacco tin in Paul D's heart represents the coping mechanism adopted by Paul D of keeping all of his emotions and experiences inside. He never chooses to open up to others on his own devices. One example being Paul only really opens up about his struggles with Sethe when he is drunk and babbling at the church.

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The relationship that Denver has with her mother and Beloved reveal the way that trauma is passed down and continues to affect multiple generations

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Her passages are usually fragmented and there are little to no punctuation in her narrated chapters. This shows her desperation she has in order to cling onto Sethe. This also could show her childlike mentality.

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-Rememory/ trauma is such a big theme is because Sethes memories of Sweet Home continue to haunt her- long after she left the property
-Starts her on an arc of moving on past grief and trauma (which takes the entire novel) and learning to value herself

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Red heart, Amy's velvet represents humanity and emotional connection

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Sethe's inability to be happy with Beloved contrasted with her cathartic acceptance from Paul D demonstrates the importance of overcoming one's wrongdoing in order to be content

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Baby Suggs turns to colors in the last few years of her life, and Sethe sort of does the same thing with the patches on the quilt: represent escapism, Stamp Paid and Baby Suggs refer to them as "harmless",

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Denver's biological family vs. found family

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Denver's biological family vs. found family

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Denver repeatedly (both in dialogue and narration) laments how isolated she feels at 124, whereas when she finally reaches out to the town, she is quickly embraced and supported by the women.

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Isolation vs the group nature of slavery

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Isolation vs the group nature of slavery

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Through slavery, each of the characters is united with others, whether through the familial structure of Sweet Home or the metaphorical and physical bonding of the chain gang. Despite this unity in slavery, each of the characters is isolated in their battles with the effects on slavery. With Paul D, he is united with others through Sweet Home and the chain gang but then spends the rest of his life battling trauma alone, taking on a perspective that life is best lived alone. Similarly, Baby Suggs bonds with others in Ohio through the shared experience of slavery, but when things go wrong with Sethe, the town is quick to abandon her and force her to deal with the trauma alone

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The emotional demands of motherhood reveal that too much love and attachment as a mother can be destructive.
Ex.:
-Baby Sugg's loving her children and losing all of them
-Sethe's love is too thick according to Paul D

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When Paul D narrates, he rarely includes dialogue. He has a higher emphasis on nature, likely due to the fact that he feels as though the earth has saved him from slavery. He's reliable, factual, without much emotion due to his "tobacco tin" and detachment.

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While memory is important to one's sense of self, it can overtake one's existence, causing them to be trapped in their past.

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Sethe's relationship with Denver vs Beloved

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Sethe's relationship with Denver vs Beloved

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Sethe's relationship with Beloved is much more obsessive and all-consuming than it is with Denver. With Denver, she is almost so distracted by her own trauma that she leaves her daughter isolated. This could reflect Sethe's desire for the things that were stolen from her because of the institution of slavery.

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The use of the jungle in chapter

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community is crucial to facing the trauma of slavery
Sethe is ostracized, doesn't start creating "new tomorrow" until the community comes together to help her and get rid of Beloved
Motherhood in Bondage: enslaved people formed communities, often took care of children that weren't their own: extended families
Denver and the town