"Storytelling also allows individuals to forge social and inter-personal bonds. So, Sethe longs to share the burden of her life experience with Paul D." (Revisions, Rememories and Exorcisms)
Story telling has been around forever. It is a way of sharing your life experiences or making up new ones. Most people gather stories that they experience or are told to them. Many influential authors are very famous for sharing personal stories from their life. Other authors make up stories in order to entertain or shock audiences. Story telling is a fun way to learn more about other people and share memories you have been through.
In Beloved Characters like Sethe and Grandma Suggs have many stories of their horrid, crazy pasts. Sethe and Paul D used to live together on the Sweet Home plantation. When they rekindle their friendship from when they were slaves they both have many stories to share about what they have been through.
In the quote at the top by, Cynthia Hamilton, she explains how Sethe finally shares her story of life at Sweet Home. This is a big part in the text since Paul D experienced most of the same hardships as well. It says, "Her story was bearable because it was his as well -- to tell, to refine and tell again." (pg. 99) Sethe and Paul D connect on a way deeper level when sharing their experience together. This passage talks a lot about how multiple points of view really piece the story together to gain all of the information of what happened in everyones life during slavery. It explains how by using dialect and characters stories you are able to feel more emotion as if they were telling their story to you. By both adding in parts of what they experience it gives the reader a more clear view of what all the characters felt. When Sethe shares her stories it is the first time that Denver has actually heard what her mom had to go through at Sweet Home. Sethe is able to release all of her emotion and is much better after this and feels much closer to Paul D.
Later on in the book when Paul D confronts Sethe with the newspaper article Sethe is forced to share a very tough time in her past where she was forced to kill her third kid. When Paul D hears of this he is shocked and disgusted and his anxiety of Beloved compelled him to move out of 124. Sometimes stories don't in fact bring people together and can really affect others involved.
Later on in the book when Paul D confronts Sethe with the newspaper article Sethe is forced to share a very tough time in her past where she was forced to kill her third kid. When Paul D hears of this he is shocked and disgusted and his anxiety of Beloved compelled him to move out of 124. Sometimes stories don't in fact bring people together and can really affect others involved.
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