1. Warming up with three good things and our final round of musical chairs reading tickets
2. Rereading the last few pages of Beloved together
- Find phrases and lines that bring closure or resolution to a "wound" in Beloved that has affected one or more of the characters.
- What closure or resolution does it bring? How?
- What is still left open?
4. Wrapping up with kudos, questions, and epiphanies
HW:
1. As Soon As Possible (no later than the final): Complete your Beloved big question blog.
2. For NEXT THURSDAY:
Remember that your final is on THURSDAY, December 20 from 11:30 am to about 3:00 pm. You will need a pencil, a blue or black pen, and notebook paper.
Ideas for preparation:
- Look carefully through all the timed writings you've done this semester.
- Use Quizlet to review terms.
- Revisit your Socratic tickets on Beloved, as well as your blogs, your classmates' blogs, and the Socratic scribing.
- Look back through the sample multiple choice we've done.
- Skim through your composition notebook.
- Get a good night's sleep and eat breakfast in the morning.
Why is Denver the main focus
ReplyDeleteWe get to see denver grow - contrast to sethe who is stagnant
Beloved is a metaphor for slavery - we still live with the consequences of slavery
Denver wants to be touched by Beloved and and Beloved is not interested in Denver
Beloved cares about sethe
One of the things that the women carried up to 124 was (p. 303) christian faith, as shield and sword (baby suggs connection),
Shield represents faith
Sword is sword of the spirit
Relates to christianity - common christian phrase
The bible talks about putting on armor against evil
Since christianity is so connected to baby suggs, why now?
When baby suggs was still alive it was a simpler time
Defending baby suggs and her bloodline
Waitstation = community
Community has been lost
Everyone judges sethe and her pride
Restoring what was lost
Denver is the one who goes out into the community
Denver means journey (talked about in the first socratic) - interesting how denver “takes a journey”\
If it is not a “story to pass on”, why pass it on
No one wants to talk about slavery but it is a conversation that is necessary
Repetition of lines is super significant
Big theme of memory in the book
Morrison wants the reader to feel it is their responsibility to know this
Beloved is a symbol for all the slaves from that time that have been forgotten
That is the kind of story we don’t talk about because it is too much
It is not, it is not, this is not…
Means that this book isn't just about the book - it is about slavery as a whole
Maybe is is a story that cannot be shared, but something that everyone needs to experience
Maybe the story is slavery and morrison is saying that we should not pass on slavery
This is not a story to pass on, not a story that will pass on (or die)
This is not something to pass on = some of these prejudices still exist
These prejudices need to stop existing
What is the sig. Of paul D’s return?
ReplyDeletePaul d represents the perspective of the reader
When the reader learns what sethe did, the reader takes a step back, similar to paul D
His character development wasn't done yet
Paul D’s tobacco tin shows that there can be healing
His holding fingers are holding hers
He is gathering her, she is not holding his hand but he is “holding her together”
She has gathered his heart and is a friend of his mind
Interesting early in the chapter, page 116, mentions how many times paul d escapes (kept getting caught)
Paul D’s relationship to sethe was like slavery and he tried to run away likewise but was also failing in that too
Will sethe pursue sethe? It seems like he is the only one who pursues the other in their relationship
Sethe was glad to have Paul D out of her bed, didn’t really care he left
Unspoken pact to be there for eachother
Paul D needs Sethe more that she needs him
Paul D replacement for Halle
Sethe left in pieces
Quilt
When he bathes her, will he do it in sections
Sethe decimated
When paul returns, sethe pulled back together
“You your best thing sethe. You are.”
Would Denver have had a hard time without her relationship to denver?
Would Sethe have been driven out of the town without her connection to baby suggs?
If you are a part of the town, you will be helped no matter what
In a society of only black people, that brought people together
Religious intentions
Baby Suggs = holy
We need to take care of the because she cannot take care of herself
Empathize
She is suffering from her past - we have to so we will help her
Her footprints come and go and come and go and … child… adult put their feet in them and they will fit
Footprints are a manner of tracking - where there are footprints someone has been there
Footprint of slavery?
Wrap up
Want to talk more about the song after beloved disappears
Liked what everyone said about distortion of “pass on”
Reconstruction = slavery part 2 (minus being called slavery)
Book ends w/ word “beloved”
Liked conversation of “pass on”
How much neglect Sethe has for Denver
She “cares” enough to kill them and then neglects denver
Sethe and Paul D needed each other
Paul D = reality, Sethe = fantasy
Everyone needs a balance
Strange how everyone forgot about beloved yet sethe could not forget about slavery
Morrison’s intentions??
Beloved is such a burden
Not something they want to go through but they had to
And her beloved which was not beloved
End of book means that beloved was never really “beloved”
Something twisted
2nd paragraph of last 2 pages
“To be loved”
Interesting how characters deal with emotional trauma
Forgot her because of the trauma she caused