Why does Paul D focus on Sethe's mouth in these final pages of your reading? He repeats "that ain't her mouth" four times in the span of two pages.

Write On This:

The only way we can pursue our own atonement is to remember.

Shadows holding hands

Morrison leaves this chapter with: "the shadows of three people still held hands" (59). What is the implication, do you imagine?

PAUL D

Why is Paul D the kind of man who can walk into a house and make the women cry?

Beloved is a ghost story

Have you ever felt haunted? Walked into a home and felt something you could not explain? Beloved, by Toni Morrison, is that way--like a home that I'm drawn into, that I want to understand, whose walls speak story, whose wisdom I aspire to, appreciate, and applaud. Everytime I read this work I wonder at the artist's mind. How can Morrison write story that makes us bleed? She haunts us. She unveils wounds. Regret. Reminiscences. She finds the words we hide from and leads us to community. I invite you to come in. Come join me in this haunted house in Ohio on Bluestone Street, you too may find pieces of yourself.

Your turn: what haunts you?