Homework Due 5/5

1. Write a close reading of Morrison’s symbolic imagery used either in the scene where Halle becomes “broken” (82.5-83.7) or where Paul D is juxtaposed to Mister the Rooster (85.1-86.8).
2. Assignment should be typed and emailed to devin@ucla.edu before class begins on Monday.
3. Please consult the website I designed to help you with this assignment: http://lpsessaywriting.wordpress.com/
4. Finish making notes on the passages we didn’t get to discuss in class.

Chapter 5:

Beloved’s reincarnation (60.4-61.10)


Chapter 6:

“Where your diamonds?” … “like a tender place in the corner of her mouth that the bit left.” (69.4-69.8)

"My woman? You mean my mother?” … “I didn’t understand it then. Not till I had a mark of my own.” (72.5-73.4)

“What Nan told her she had forgotten, along with the language she told it in.” (73.10-74.6)

Chapter 7:

Halle broken & Sethe’s Greedy Brain (82.5-83.7)

Paul D & Mister the Rooster (85.1-86.8)


Chapter 9:

“I’m small in that place.” (88.4)

Denver’s birth