Quiz 5:Beloved + Week 5 material

Question 1

what frameworks are used for reading beloved

Answer 1

1. allegory: characters represent the slave experience.

Question 2

what does the murdered baby represent

Answer 2

slaves who suffered and died during the middle passage

Question 3

what is an allegory

Answer 3

story within a story, surface story with another meaning

Question 4

are sethe and Paul D. suffering, do they have PTSD

Question 5

beloved walks out——- and is sopping wet,cold, and breathing hard

Answer 5

earth

Question 6

what does the apprearece of beloved’s skin suggest

Answer 6

smooth

Question 7

why does here boy the dog disappear when beloved arrives

Answer 7

the dog runs because he can sense its a ghost

Question 8

what weird thing happens to sethe when she first sees beloved and why is it significant

Answer 8

she has to pee and it resembles water breaking like during birth

Question 9

according to morrison what is life like for many slaves especially men after war

Answer 9

a group of men walking with women add they were getting picked up by the KKK