Presented by: Simon

Nguyen
Stephanie Pham
Daisy Phung
Period 3
Flashback and Memory

"124 was spiteful... the house

committed what was for him" (3)
Memory
"Counting on the stillness of her
own soul, she had forgotten the
other one" (5)
Flashback
“ [..] baby's fury at having its throat
cut, but those ten minutes she spent
pressed up against dawn-colored
stone studded with star chips, her
knees wide open as the grave, were
longer than life, more alive, more
pulsating than the baby blood that
soaked her fingers like oil.” (5)
Symbolism/ Nature
"trees [are] inviting; things you
could trust and be near; talk to if
you wanted to as he frequently did
since way back when he took the
midday meal in the fields of Sweet
Home" (173)
Motif = Iron
“It was some time before he could put
Alfred, Georgia, Sixo, schoolteacher,
Halle…. into the tobacco tin lodged in
his chest. By the time he got to 124
nothing in this world could pry it
open.” (113)
Stream of consciousness
“Beloved,she my daughter. She
mine….She had to be safe and I
put her where she would be. But
my love was tough and she back
now.” (201)
Reaction Statements
- Sethe’s act of infanticide is justifiable

- Beloved forgives Sethe