Chapter 3 Journal Entry for Beloved

Chapter 3

5. What new information do we learn about Sweet Home in this chapter, specifically about Denver’s birth?
   
6. Retell the night of Denver’s birth, from Amy’s point of view. 
   
   
   In this chapter we are told the story of Denver's birth- and then a little about Paul D's life after he left Sweet Home. We learn that Sethe ran away from Sweet Home while she was pregnant with Denver, and carrying milk for her other daughter, called Beloved. We learn that Sethe ran away to escape slavery and connect with her children, but that carrying Denver made it more difficult. Denver was an antsy baby- rolling and kicking in the womb, but walking soothed her. Sethe eventually collapsed from exhaustion and believes Denver magically brought this white girl to help her. We also learn that after Denver was born, Schoolteacher- a mean white man who worked for Mrs. Garner at Sweet Home and was one of Sethe's master's found her. She could either go back to being a slave or go to jail, so she went to jail and brought the newborn Denver with her.
   
   Later we also learn about Sethe's early life before she was sold to Sweet Home- She didn't know her mother, but she did remember the songs- and related them to antelopes. She referred to Denver as a little antelope while she was still in her womb.
   
   
   Amy- I was finally free. Id been walking and walking but I didn't have to work my momma's debt off anymore. I was free and I was done. I didn't have to do nothin for anyone. And I gonna go to Boston and get me some velvet. CARMINE velvet. Ain't nobody think I can but I'm gonna get me some velvet. The real good Boston kind. I came up on a woods and thought  maybe there be some good mulberries here. those good and sweet. I ain't eaten for days. I walked on up to walk up that them there hill and I heard a noise. A person noise, not some animal noise, I used to those. I called out- who's in there? nobody answered, I went to go look, all careful like you know? and it was a nigger woman. A PREGNANT nigger woman. I remember thinkin, what on earth is she doing in there? I asked her if she got anything food like, I'd eat anything now. She said she pregnant. I got that, woman got a belly. I told her about the velvet, then got up to go on. As I walked away I called on back- what you just gonna lay there and foal? She called back, I can't get up from here. Turns out her feel to swoll to walk and she couldn't crawl on her own. I went on and helped her out into a lean to I found a while back, and put her feet up an nice before I tried to rub the life back into them. I learned that livin the in cold root-cellar they poor me in.