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Chapter 26: Monday, October 29, 2018

1:24 PM

• Sethe and Beloved :were too busy rationing their strength to fight each other." ○ Like a parasite, Beloved begins to drain Sethe's life force • Sethe lost her job ○ There's not enough food anymore § Rationing food: rather eat the eggs the hens lay than frying the 2 hens ○ She sacrifices much for Beloved: food (Beloved gets fat while Sethe losing weight, Beloved wears Sethe's clothes" § Denver realizes that she has trouble telling Sethe and Beloved apart from each other § Beloved keeps saying how they had the same face, they were the same and kept asking Sethe how she could've left her □ Sethe: begs for forgiveness for abandoning her "listing again an again her reasons: that Beloved was more important, meant more to her than her own life. That she would trade places any day. Give up her life, every minute and hour of it, to take back just one of Beloved's tears." • It was obvious to Denver that Sethe could die ○ "the job she started out with, protecting Beloved from Sethe, changed to protecting her mother from Beloved." • Denver leaves 124 for the first time in 12 years to find help ○ She ended up at Lady Jones' ○ "I want work, Miss Lady… I can't do anything, but I would learn it for you if you have a little extra… food. My ma'am, she doesn't feel good."

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○ Mrs. Jones: very caring - "Oh, baby… oh, baby." ○ Mrs. Jones offered to give them food until they were okay to sustain theirselves but Denver refused "as though asking for help from strangers was worse than hunger." "Two days later Denver… noticed something lying on the tree stump at the edge of the yard. She went… and found a sack of white beans. Another time a plate of cold rabbit meat. One morning a basket of eggs sat there…'M. Lucille Williams' was writtin in big crooked letters." "Every now and then, all through the spring, names appeared near or in gifts of food… to let the girl know… who the donor was… the name was nevertheless there." "Beloved ate up her [Sethe] life, took it, swelled up with it, grw taller on it." ○ "Denver thought she understood the connection between her mother and Beloved: Sethe was trying to make up for the handsaw; Beloved was making her pay for it." Word spread that "sethe's dead aughter, the one whose throat she cut, had come back to fix her. Sethe was worn down, speckled, dying, spinning, changing shapes and generally bedeviled. That this daughter beat her, tied her to the bed and pulled out all her hair." ○ "“You can’t just up and kill your children.” “No, and the children can’t just up and kill the mama.”" The group of people who prayed for her made way to 124 and Sethe was able to "look again at the loving faces before her that she sees him." ○ "Standing alone on the porch, Beloved is smiling. But now her hand is empty. Sethe is running away from her, running, and she feels the emptiness in the hand Sethe has been holding. Now she is running into the faces of the people out there, joining them and leaving Beloved behind. Alone. Again. Then Denver, running too. Away from her to the pile of people out there. They make a hill A hill of black people falling And above them all rising from his

make a hill. A hill of black people, falling. And above them all, rising from his place with a whip in his hand, the man without skin, looking. He is looking at her."...