tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879974514873032754.post9126459700235910338..comments2023-04-17T02:28:03.570-07:00Comments on Leclaire's A.P. Literature and Awesomeness: 2014-2015: Who Just Walks Out of the Water? What? A.P. Lit, January 23, 2015kleclairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03942217584894176389noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879974514873032754.post-43943972931502451152015-01-23T08:05:15.965-08:002015-01-23T08:05:15.965-08:00Opening Question Markings:
Why is Beloved’s voice...Opening Question Markings:<br /><br />Why is Beloved’s voice contradictory with her other descriptions?<br /> she shiny, new skin, happy, but her voice is low and rough<br /><br />Other contradictions:<br /><br /> Her feet were like hands<br />She claimed to have come a long way to come to 124, but her hands were really pampered<br />Amid all that she was smiling, even though she was in so much pain<br />Flawless skin except for 3 scratches<br />Who is Beloved?<br /><br />She is similar to a baby, coming out the water, new <br />Maybe she is Sethe’s dead daughter<br />She can’t read, hasn’t learned a lot<br />Her voice was rough, which might have something to do with Sethe’s baby’s throat being cut<br />Beloved knows things about Sethe that she couldn’t know<br />Denver knows, How?<br />She is almost possessive of Sethe<br />pg 88 What is like over there?-Dark.. Beloved is back from the grave, she was small. hot, nothing to breath, lot of people down, bridge<br />“What did you come back for?” “Sethe”<br /><br />Where was she before?<br /><br />Purgatory, hot, lots of people waiting<br />bridges represent transition between two places<br />Was she the one haunting the house<br />Slaveship?-crowded images, people dying<br />Underground railroad<br /> possibly not be supernatural<br /><br />Why is Denver jealous that Beloved said that she came to see Sethe’s face<br /><br />She thinks of the ghost baby as a sort of friend, so if Beloved came back for Sethe only, then she felt unimportant<br /><br />3 scratches?<br /><br />Numbers-124 for house, Beloved is the third<br />Why are they on her forehead?<br />Marked on, chosen one, it gives her physical distinction from everyone else<br />The number 3 is a demonic number-some kind of evil<br /><br />Is Beloved evil or good?<br /><br />Something is not right about her, she has a lot of anger, she gets very upset<br />There is something about her that is not at peace<br />If she is the reincarnation of the baby, then babies are innocent and good, so how can she be evil<br />When she was haunting the house, she was somewhat evil, even as a baby ghost<br /><br />Why do the characters seem ignorant?<br /><br />Paul D and Denver see how different she is but Sethe doesn’t<br />Last page of Chapter 7- “Nothing better than that to start the day’s serious work of beating back the past”<br />Paul D is future, and the ghost is her past?<br /><br />Why does Sethe have trouble accepting Beloved?<br /><br />Beloved is a walking mistake or scar for Sethe<br />Sethe stands up for her when Paul D scorns her<br />When Beloved is in ghost form, Sethe doesn’t have to face her past as much, but Beloved’s physical representation is more difficult to avoid<br />Seeing Beloved as a young women, it make her think of what could have been<br /><br />Is Beloved actually a real person?<br /><br />The shininess makes it seem like shes not from here<br /><br />Why is Paul D uncomfortable with Beloved?<br /><br />He is less attached, so he can see the negative qualities<br />Maybe he is the least bothered because he is not as weary or scared of her<br />He was weary with the ghost and it transferred to the physical representation<br /><br />Beginning of chapter 5 Champaigne passage?<br /><br />not completely put together<br />comparing her to drunk people<br />talks like a child, doesn’t know what’s going on<br />Neck was thin as a saucer plate?<br />strange way to describe someone <br />Like a young baby’s neck, can’t hold it up<br />another unnatural quality<br /><br />Chapter 8-Denver being born passage, reference of the dragon in the river, when she gets out on the northern side<br /><br />spors of blue fern, silvery blue, lots of blue reference, union associated with blue and north<br />dragon? the KKK the head of the klan is the imperial dragon?<br /><br />Wrap Up<br /><br />Haunting baby having throat cut-connection to Beloved’s rough voice<br />Why does Beloved stay after she saw Sethe’s face?<br />Why is Beloved calling herself Beloved if she’s Sethe’s baby<br />Amy is very self-centered, but she still helps Sethe<br />Significance of Lady Button Eyes song<br />pg 83 her brain was hungry for the past<br />Does Beloved want revenge on Sethe?<br />Paul D and Sethe talking about Halle?<br />Learn more about Sethe’s relationship with mother and how it relates to Sethe’s other relationships<br />Significance of the color red<br />Amy’s description of the tree on Sethe’s back, beautiful wound<br />Similarities between Beloved and Cathy<br />kleclairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03942217584894176389noreply@blogger.com