Chapter 16
27. Who thinks this to himself? “But now she’d gone wild, due to the mishandling of the
nephew who’d overbeat her and made her run.”
28. What is he talking about? Do you agree with him?
27) This quote is of the schoolteacher's inner monologue.
28) He is talking about Sethe, how she'd "gone wild", gone back to her "true" animalistic state, how she was now a beast you couldn't ever trust again. He refers to when his nephew beat her, beat the sanity, the humanity almost, out of her. He references the hunting dogs and the horse, how if you beat them like the nephew beat Sethe they would "go wild". They would turn on you in a heartbeat just because they felt like it. How you could no longer have a lick of trust for that animal, or in this case person- even though schoolteacher doesn't agree.
I agree with him in some ways. I think that she's lost some of her mental sanctity and her understanding of better or worse due to her treatment by schoolteacher and his nephews. I think that in a sense she has "gone wild". She is going to do whatever she needs to in order to protect her babies from this terrible evil- the evil she knows. Beyond that, I disagree with him. Sethe is not an animal. Nothing should ever be beaten, human or animal so that makes all his actions atrocious. Also, Sethe didn't run because the nephew beat her. Sethe ran because she knew no worse situation to be in, and wanted out, she wanted her babies out. Schoolteacher is generally mistaken when it comes to blacks and Sethe in particular.
28. What is he talking about? Do you agree with him?
27) This quote is of the schoolteacher's inner monologue.
28) He is talking about Sethe, how she'd "gone wild", gone back to her "true" animalistic state, how she was now a beast you couldn't ever trust again. He refers to when his nephew beat her, beat the sanity, the humanity almost, out of her. He references the hunting dogs and the horse, how if you beat them like the nephew beat Sethe they would "go wild". They would turn on you in a heartbeat just because they felt like it. How you could no longer have a lick of trust for that animal, or in this case person- even though schoolteacher doesn't agree.
I agree with him in some ways. I think that she's lost some of her mental sanctity and her understanding of better or worse due to her treatment by schoolteacher and his nephews. I think that in a sense she has "gone wild". She is going to do whatever she needs to in order to protect her babies from this terrible evil- the evil she knows. Beyond that, I disagree with him. Sethe is not an animal. Nothing should ever be beaten, human or animal so that makes all his actions atrocious. Also, Sethe didn't run because the nephew beat her. Sethe ran because she knew no worse situation to be in, and wanted out, she wanted her babies out. Schoolteacher is generally mistaken when it comes to blacks and Sethe in particular.
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