Chapter 19
32. Was Stamp Paid right to tell Paul D about Sethe’s past? He argues with himself about it. Give one reason it was a good idea, and one that is was a bad idea. What do you think?
33. Why did Sethe decide she had to run away from Sweet Home? Use a quote from the book to in your explanation.
32) In my opinion, Stamp Paid was right to tell Paul D about Sethe's past. It was Paul D's right to know, and his right to understand why they were locked away in 124 without any friends or anyone left to come back to them. One reason it was a good idea, in Stamp's opinion, is that a man has a right to know what he's getting himself into. Stamp wanted to give something to them, and he thought for a minute that was the way to do it. He then later decides it wasn't best. That if not for Baby Suggs then for Denver, the baby he had saved. The one he had wrapped up and saved from a fate in the river, they baby he fed those sweet sweet blackberries to. He feels a fatherly connection to Denver and later thinks that by accidentally driving Paul D off he has harmed her.
33) In my personal opinion, Sethe's final trigger to get her kids out of sweet home was Mrs. Garner dying and the measuring tape. On page 226, Sethe says "I didn't care nothing about the measuring string... But I didn't care. Schoolteacher'd wrap that string all over my head, 'cross my nose, around my behind. Number my teeth. I thought he was a fool." She then later asks Mrs. Garner about what characteristics are- what schoolteacher told her he was finding. Then, on page 233 she says "Ha ha. NO notebook for my babies and no measuring string either." I think that to her, the measuring string and the questions were the line of being treated like animals, and she wanted her children to escape that.
For Sethe herself, the final trigger of "GET OUT" would be her rape and the nephews stealing her milk. She knew then she couldn't wait for Halle or anyone else and left as soon as she could.
32. Was Stamp Paid right to tell Paul D about Sethe’s past? He argues with himself about it. Give one reason it was a good idea, and one that is was a bad idea. What do you think?
33. Why did Sethe decide she had to run away from Sweet Home? Use a quote from the book to in your explanation.
32) In my opinion, Stamp Paid was right to tell Paul D about Sethe's past. It was Paul D's right to know, and his right to understand why they were locked away in 124 without any friends or anyone left to come back to them. One reason it was a good idea, in Stamp's opinion, is that a man has a right to know what he's getting himself into. Stamp wanted to give something to them, and he thought for a minute that was the way to do it. He then later decides it wasn't best. That if not for Baby Suggs then for Denver, the baby he had saved. The one he had wrapped up and saved from a fate in the river, they baby he fed those sweet sweet blackberries to. He feels a fatherly connection to Denver and later thinks that by accidentally driving Paul D off he has harmed her.
33) In my personal opinion, Sethe's final trigger to get her kids out of sweet home was Mrs. Garner dying and the measuring tape. On page 226, Sethe says "I didn't care nothing about the measuring string... But I didn't care. Schoolteacher'd wrap that string all over my head, 'cross my nose, around my behind. Number my teeth. I thought he was a fool." She then later asks Mrs. Garner about what characteristics are- what schoolteacher told her he was finding. Then, on page 233 she says "Ha ha. NO notebook for my babies and no measuring string either." I think that to her, the measuring string and the questions were the line of being treated like animals, and she wanted her children to escape that.
For Sethe herself, the final trigger of "GET OUT" would be her rape and the nephews stealing her milk. She knew then she couldn't wait for Halle or anyone else and left as soon as she could.
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