Cold+or+Warm+Imagery

= Record Images of coldness or warmth in //Beloved// Here. Please include the quote and the page/section number. =

"Over Denver's shoulder Sethe shot Paul D a look of snow." section 1.1 hardback pg. 17---Snow is cold. She gave him a cold, icy look.

Section 1.6, pg.69 "The heat of the stove made her drowsy and she felt Beloved touch her."


 * The house gives Denver a cold feeling.
 * Book 1 section 3 page 35 hardcover "Shivering, Denver approached the house, regarding it, as she always did, as a person rather than a structure."

Section 1.1, pg.13 "Denver stood on the bottom step and was suddenly hot and shy."

We see Beloved dancing upstairs and reminicing about stories of Sethe, which makes her very happy. Morrison attaches this with the line "she felt a warm satisfaction radiating from Beloved". So warm in this instance represents happiness. When she asks Denver to join in and dance, she is icy cold, and a bit reluctant to do so.
 * Section 1.8, pg 87 (Hardcover) "She had felt a warm satisfaction radiating from Beloved's skin when she listened to her mother talk about the old days."
 * Same page "Denver grew ice cold as she rose from the bed. She knew she was twice Beloved's size but she floated up, cold and light as a snowflake."

Beloved is often associated with warmth despite her state of being. Typically ghosts and death are thought to be cold, but Morrison steps outside the conventional belief. This reversal of a common idea shows up a lot in Beloved. In this case, by calling a dead person warm and a living person cold, Morrison subtly backs up the theme that life was not pleasant for the main characters at this time and that death would almost be better.
 * Section 1.8, pg. 75 "Denver scooted a little closer. 'What's it like over there, where you were before? Can you tell me?'... Beloved curled tighter and shook her head. 'Hot. Nothing to breathe down there and no room to move in.'"
 * "The fire in her feet and the fire on her back made her sweat." (Section 1.8, p.93 hardcover) Sethe is describing the pain of her feet and back.

"In the heat of every Saturday afternoon, she sat in the clearing while the people waited among the trees." section 1.9 hardcover pg.102

"She began to sweat from a fever she thanked God for since it would certainly keep her baby warm." section 1.9 hardcover pg.106

"She stopped and then turned her face toward him and the hateful wind." Section 1.13 hardcover pg.150
 * Paul D meets Sethe at her work to tell her that he has been having sex with Beloved, but the weather is bitter cold and only worsens when he gets close to telling Sethe. As they walk home they find Beloved away from the house in the middle of a blizzard

The house is referred to as cold by Denver and thus makes it seem dreary and not a fun place to be.


 * "...and looks up toward the light to make sure this is still the cold house and not something going on in her sleep" p. 122, section 1.12, book 1

The place separated from the main part of 124 is called the cold house. "Then it was the cold house..." Section 1.11 hardcover pg.136

Hardcover 1.13 it begins to snow. Beloved brings out a shawl for Sethe. Symbolizing that Beloved is a sense of warmth and comfort for Sethe and making Paul D feel like he is not.

pg 152 (hardcover) The author places emphasis on how cold it is. This may be to represent the "coldness" of distance between Sethe and Paul D because of the secret he is holding back. Then it begins to snow. This represents the side of their relationship that overpowers--love, innocence, positivity--the way they are feeling in this moment. Snow (cold water) represents the rebirth he somewhat has when he suggests having a baby together.

"But none of them wanted to leave the warmth of the blankets, the fire, and the cups for the chill of an unheated bed."
 * This shows that Beloved, Sethe, and Denver wanted to stay together and warm. Warm is comforting.

pg 153 Hardcover. Sethe is making sure Beloved stays warm, and it talks about the snow and how cold Beloved is and how she doesn't make an efforr ro stay warm. I've heard it said that ghost' are always cold, and so when it says that Sethe is trying to make her warm, it kind of makes me thing Sethe is trying to make her 'real' (as in, not a ghost anymore)
 * "...Sethe took the shawl and wrapped it around Beloved's head and she enclosed her in her left arm."


 * Book 3, Hardcover, Pg. 306 "Even the weather was getting to be too much for him. He was either too hot or freezing, and this day was a blister. He pressed his hat down from the sun on his neck, where heatstroke was a real possibility."

Section 2.1, pg, 206 "But none of them wanted to leave the warmth of the blankets, the fire and the cups for the chill of an unheated bed. They went on sipping and watching the fire."

Section 1.16 page 178 hardcover, "Not because he was afraid. Not at all. He was just cold. And he didn't want to touch anything." This is how the sheriff feels once he has seen what Sethe has done/attempted to do to her children.