https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f Made with charisma en-us 2018-01-17 12:35:26 UTC 2018-01-17 16:18:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222037727 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. 
 ]]> 2018-01-17 12:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222037727 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222037926 - 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]]> 2018-01-17 12:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222037926 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038056 Forest that springs up between Sethe and Paul D - connection to forest that Sethe walked through before giving birth?]]> 2018-01-17 12:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038056 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038098 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 ]]> 2018-01-17 12:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038098 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038101 2018-01-17 12:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038101 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038103 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)]]> 2018-01-17 12:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038103 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038227 Paul D - Love "thinly" to protect oneself
Sethe's love is "too thick"]]> 2018-01-17 12:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038227 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038268 Multiple mentions - Baby Suggs's shoe repair, Beloved's new shoes, Sethe looking at Paul D all the way to his feet]]> 2018-01-17 12:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038268 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038325 2018-01-17 12:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038325 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038453 - Repetition of "beg your pardon"
- Desperation of losing another one of her (grand)children, asking for forgiveness when her children were taken away

]]> 2018-01-17 12:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038453 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038459 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.]]> 2018-01-17 12:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038459 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038604 Why hummingbirds?]]> 2018-01-17 12:45:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038604 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038815 What does this say about their characters]]> 2018-01-17 12:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038815 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038967 -black after she kills the baby, which was foreshadowed when Paul D came back from Sweet Home and noticed Paul D's eyes

]]> 2018-01-17 12:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222038967 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039102 Denver shares the blood of her dead sister when she drinks Sethe's milk]]> 2018-01-17 12:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039102 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039178 Schoolteacher, nephew, slave catcher, and sheriff]]> 2018-01-17 12:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039178 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039219 Fish and Bread referenced when Baby Suggs starts the feast ]]> 2018-01-17 12:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039219 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039237 - Why does Paul D. keep focusing on the mouth of the woman on the newspaper?

]]> 2018-01-17 12:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039237 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039350 2018-01-17 12:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039350 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039487 2018-01-17 12:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039487 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039516 The abundance of the feast is like a sin of pride or gluttony. Why is this feast likened to biblical stories altogether?]]> 2018-01-17 12:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039516 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039583 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 

]]> 2018-01-17 12:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039583 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039659 2018-01-17 12:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039659 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039675 Conquest, War, Famine, Death]]> 2018-01-17 12:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039675 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039904 Possible connection to baptism/rebirth, means its winter which symbolizes death, foreshadows break-up between Sethe Paul D]]> 2018-01-17 12:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039904 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039970 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]]> 2018-01-17 12:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039970 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039980 2018-01-17 12:50:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222039980 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040070 2018-01-17 12:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040070 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040394 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)]]> 2018-01-17 12:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040394 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040792 2018-01-17 12:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040792 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040957 2018-01-17 12:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040957 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040960 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.]]> 2018-01-17 12:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040960 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040975 2018-01-17 12:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040975 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040979 Number four symbolizes death]]> 2018-01-17 12:54:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040979 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040997 Importance of the numbers/ Paul D saying Sethe had other options rather than killing]]> 2018-01-17 12:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222040997 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222041234 2018-01-17 12:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222041234 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222041267 Unable to take a head role as the man in the family]]> 2018-01-17 12:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222041267 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222113895 -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)

]]> 2018-01-17 16:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222113895 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114143 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]]> 2018-01-17 16:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114143 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114206 Slaves constantly referred to as animals

Sethe compared to animal

]]> 2018-01-17 16:00:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114206 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114216 Mixture of blood and breast milk -- what does this mean/symbolize]]> 2018-01-17 16:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114216 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114362 -Running circles around her actual problems]]> 2018-01-17 16:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114362 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114571 The circle made by Sethe - what does this symbolize]]> 2018-01-17 16:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114571 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114660 -Pictures herself in a dark place (death)
-In the shed, where Sethe killed the baby]]> 2018-01-17 16:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114660 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114917 -Avoiding the truth
-Looking at the water not the road]]> 2018-01-17 16:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114917 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114977 Concept of masculinity - seen in Paul D, Four Horsemen (specifically of the nephew); how does this contribute to internal conflict]]> 2018-01-17 16:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222114977 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115010 Juxtaposition between the "cheery blue sky" and Sethe going to jail for murdering her baby (179)]]> 2018-01-17 16:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115010 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115287 - 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

]]> 2018-01-17 16:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115287 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115387 -motif.. what does it mean]]> 2018-01-17 16:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115387 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115610 -The big lavish feast Baby Suggs had]]> 2018-01-17 16:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115610 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115790 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 ]]> 2018-01-17 16:05:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115790 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115794 2018-01-17 16:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115794 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115894 -red haired boy
-yellow haired girl
-red blood
-cover of book is red and yellow?????]]> 2018-01-17 16:05:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222115894 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222116109 -symbolism?]]> 2018-01-17 16:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222116109 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222116149 Sethe's been deprived of motherly love all her life (especially from her own mother) so her instincts are stronger]]> 2018-01-17 16:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222116149 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222116189 “...to get to a place where you could love anything you chose—not to need permission for desire—well now, that was freedom" (191).]]> 2018-01-17 16:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222116189 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222116508 -motif]]> 2018-01-17 16:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222116508 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222116679 -Motherly love?
-Pure psycho]]> 2018-01-17 16:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222116679 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222116749 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".]]> 2018-01-17 16:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222116749 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222117607 Tin box symbolism - tobacco?]]> 2018-01-17 16:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222117607 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222117610 -Minding their own business?
-Wings of hummingbhird]]> 2018-01-17 16:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222117610 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222118233 -Denver has a part of her younger sister in her (literally and figuratively)
-Maternal instinct - feed the child]]> 2018-01-17 16:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222118233 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222119476 2018-01-17 16:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222119476 https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222120128 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."]]> 2018-01-17 16:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dyastremski/atgmh4p21y6f/wish/222120128