1. Warming up with three good things
2. Considering the following: How is Beloved marked?
- What does our friend, Thomas Foster (from How To Read Literature...) have to say about marks?
- "...character markings stand as indicators of the damage life inflicts...[characters] bear signs illustrating the way life marks all who pass through it." (195)
- Find two or three good passages illustrating how Beloved is marked. What might these marks signify?
- How are the other characters marked?
3. Discussing Chapters 4 through 8 of Beloved, Socratic style
4. Wrapping up with questions, epiphanies, and kudos
HW:
1. For WEDNESDAY: Prepare for your next vocabulary quiz, which will cover Lists 1 and 2.
2. For FRIDAY: Read Chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12; prepare your Socratic ticket.
2. For FRIDAY: Read Chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12; prepare your Socratic ticket.
3. ONGOING: Spend 5-10 minutes Serial Reading each day.
4. TWO CHANGES:
THE LAST WEEK OF JANUARY WILL HAVE JUST ONE SOCRATIC; IT WILL BE ON THURSDAY, JAN 30, AND WILL COVER THE REST OF PART 1 (13-18):
FRIDAY, JAN 31 WILL BE THE POEM METACOGNITIVE: Decide on your poetry paper/project poem and bring it to class. Remember that it should be from a different genre / time period than your 1st poem.
Thanks, Caroline, for scribing!
ReplyDeleteHow they always talk about how beloved has no age lines or wrinkles, wondering how it's a notation of how little life has touched her
The lack of lines, beloved is tied to the baby ghost in a way, the baby is new and said “new skin is lifeless and smooth”
How old is beloved
19 or 20
Would be the age of the baby if it was alive
The three vertical lines - the trama isn’t apart of this beloved
It made me think of three different life stages because she is dead
Page 88, place she came from before. Denver asks questions about where she was before, she was describing hell or describing hell because of her age and name, Denver says we can’t let Sethe know who you are as if beloved is the actual baby - her childish nature and her perfect skin
Coming out of the water - entrance to the underworld is underwater cave, coming into their lives
Foster- the water and the fact she is unmarked play on eachother. Water is supposed to be cleaning but she doesn’t remember anything of the past. The idea of something bigger in her past, chapter 8, its the idea of trying to wash off or clean off
She doesn’t have a past, if she is an actual child, she couldn’t live and get a past somehow she enters human world as adult figure but isn’t meant to be
She does remember a little bit because of the diamond earrings and she walked out of water - sethe lives in past and beloved longs for living.
Tony gives insight into characters minds, but hasn't done it with beloved yet, denver has no idea what she is talking about. Tony is preventing us from seeing inside of beloved mind
Idea of someone possessed talking, a lot that she does - her eyes rolled back a lot of darkness page 88-89
Why would baby ghost be haunting them is she comes back as beloved
She fought for a while to get out of darkness
Paul d yells at house and sketicsal of beloved, beloved was able to materialize herself because paul d was there for sethe and idea of change and moving forward
Why right now did the baby ghost choose right now to come forward?
Sethe has been missing the baby and right as paul d shows up the baby manifested
Paul d finally have the power to question her, compared her to a fish she couldn’t catch
Why is it that once all characters from her past come, whether or not sethe will be able to escape her past?
Tong goes into detail about how Paul D makes sethe feel - significant events - there is no room for beloved in her life anymore
Sethe melts into paul d’s arms and he opens her up and she becomes incredibly vulnerable. The spirit can finally manifest in sethe
Very many interpertations of what the number three means - past, present, future - ghost pulling her back into the past
Wish there was more background with paul d and sethes relationship - could show the missing pieces
Only get glimices
School teacher - the dehumanization of slavery - they are stealing her milk, abusing different part of her body
Weird racist science - school teacher, he takes milk, her marking her characteristics, trying to figure out if she more human or animal
The rooster mister, something while talking about dark past, they connected, the relationship mister had to paul d the metaphorical things that connects them
The chicken has more power than he does, paul d mentions
One potential contrast is how mister was very vulnerable to dominating things and the reverse for paul d, when he had the iron bit in his mouth
Denver is born in the water, tying her to beloved
Boat was sinking, on the bank and had whole in it