Directions: Same format as the last blog. Read pages 52-74. 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.
- Risky, thought Paul D (pg. 54)
- “If I have to choose – well it’s not even a choice” (pg. 54)
- A life (pg. 55)
- They were not holding hands but their shadows were. (pg. 56)
- Roses (pg. 57)
- White people loose (pg. 57)
- Paul D., Sethe, Denver and “although leading them now, the shadows of three people still held hands (pg. 58)
- A fully dressed woman walked out of the water (pg 60).
- Sethe’s emergency” (pg. 61)
- Beloved – list her traits - things she does - What does she notice? Say? (pg. 62).
- Denver and Beloved – How has Denver changed? (pgs. 62-66)
- “Something funny about that gal” (pg. 67)
- Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe (pg. 68)
- Their two shadows clashed on the ceiling (pg. 68)
- Where are your diamonds? (pg. 69)
- Sethe’s answer (pgs. 69-71)
- Your woman she never fixed up your hair? (pg. 72)
- Sethe’s answer (pgs 72-75)
- How did she know? (pg. 75)
