Directions: Same format as the last blog. Read pages 76-124. Next, analyze the following moments. Notice the juxtaposition. How does each “symbol” build on the next? In your blog response, discuss how the text works to create meaning. What is meaningful about the shift itself, for example? Choose a 1-3 below to explore, and use direct evidence from the text in your response. As a class, try to mix it up, so we can cover the list as a class. Respond to each other. Be bold. Brilliant.
- "He saw?" (81)
- Mister (85)
- "In the dark, my name is Beloved" (88)
- "Tell me how Setrhe made you in the boat" (90-100)
- “It was time to lay it all down” (101)
- Mothers, fathers, children: laugh, dance, cry – love yourself (103-104)
- Baby Suggs holy proved herself a liar, whitefolks, and 28 days…. (104-105)
- Life on 124 before (105-112)
- “Just the fingers,” Paul D, strangled…Grandma Baby? (112-113)
- Beloved’s fingers, “You are too old for that,” and then Sethe “remembered” something. Could she trust Paul D? (114-118)
- “I saw what you did” (119) “I fixed it, didn’t I?” (119) “The circle of iron choked it” (119)
- Lady Jones, Nelson Lord, two years of silence…. why? What woke her up? (120-124)
- Beloved and…the turtles? (124)
