Chapter 23
39. Who are the narrators in this chapter? What do they keep repeating?
40. What is the mood in this chapter? Based on the last three chapters, how would you
predict life is changing at 124?
39) All three women at 124 are speaking in this chapter. Their voices are mixed up in a gentle clamor, probably the one heard by Stamp Paid every time he would go to 124. They keep repeating "you are mine" over and over. It is a conformation of love, and of family.
40) The mood in this chapter is more cheerful than any of the others. I found this chapter rather comforting, and I was hoping the women of 124 were also comforted. That they now understood each other and accepted one another. That Beloved loved Sethe too much and Denver was there by her side, that Beloved missed her mother, and that Sethe promised to never leave her again. They all speak about smiles. How Beloved forgot hers, how Sethe kept it for her and how Denver missed it.
I would predict that life is changing for the better at 124. That the crimes have been forgiven, the guilt will always haunt, but it has been forgiven. I think that Denver understands that she is not alone, and that she can make it herself. Beloved understands she is loved, and that its okay to move on to the afterlife. That even if there are men without skin, she is safe because she is loved. With this knowledge I think they have all been freed to go out on their own and move on. Sethe is free to love, Denver is free to be social, and Beloved is free to "cross the rainbow bridge" so to speak.
39. Who are the narrators in this chapter? What do they keep repeating?
40. What is the mood in this chapter? Based on the last three chapters, how would you
predict life is changing at 124?
39) All three women at 124 are speaking in this chapter. Their voices are mixed up in a gentle clamor, probably the one heard by Stamp Paid every time he would go to 124. They keep repeating "you are mine" over and over. It is a conformation of love, and of family.
40) The mood in this chapter is more cheerful than any of the others. I found this chapter rather comforting, and I was hoping the women of 124 were also comforted. That they now understood each other and accepted one another. That Beloved loved Sethe too much and Denver was there by her side, that Beloved missed her mother, and that Sethe promised to never leave her again. They all speak about smiles. How Beloved forgot hers, how Sethe kept it for her and how Denver missed it.
I would predict that life is changing for the better at 124. That the crimes have been forgiven, the guilt will always haunt, but it has been forgiven. I think that Denver understands that she is not alone, and that she can make it herself. Beloved understands she is loved, and that its okay to move on to the afterlife. That even if there are men without skin, she is safe because she is loved. With this knowledge I think they have all been freed to go out on their own and move on. Sethe is free to love, Denver is free to be social, and Beloved is free to "cross the rainbow bridge" so to speak.
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