Color+Imagery

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


 * Baby Suggs is really sick, but she still has her family show her colorful things.
 * "...she used the little energy left her for pondering color." 1.1 pg. 4 (hardcover)
 * Sixo is described.
 * "Sprawled near Brother, his flame-red tongue hidden from them, his indigo face closed, Sixo slept through dinner like a corpse." 1.2 pg 26 (hardcover)


 * Paul D descibes the wallpaper he notices on the second floor. Section 1.1, pg.13 "Paul D could see just the beginning of the paper, discreet flecks of yellow sprinkled among a blizzard of snowdrops all backed by blue."


 * Paul D describes how Beloved looks. Section 1.7, pg. 76 "By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out, the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy."


 * Sethe talks about the last color that she remembers having in her life being "the pink chips in the headstone of her baby girl." Section 1.3 pg. 46. This implies that the "color" in Sethe's life left when her baby died.


 * Sethe describes the change of her perseption when she talked about dawn. She originally never acknowledged or remarked its color. But after the death of her baby the colors now triggered harsh saddening images that she could not ignore. The dawn would torture her every morning with the pain and loss it represented. Section 1.3 (hardcover) pg. 47 "It was as though one day she saw red baby blood, another day pink gravestone chips, and that was the last of it."


 * Paul D came into the house from the porch and the appearance of his entranced is described as "a pool of red and undulating light that locked him where he stood." Section 1.1 (hardcover) pg.10. Red can represent evil, shortly after he enters Paul D notices the evil presence in the house. Red can represent the lust between Sethe and Pauly D in these first moments.


 * Section 1.1, pg.13 Denver is compared to a doll. "But the girl who walked down out of that air was round and brown with the face of an alert doll."


 * Section 1.7 pg. 76 Paul D has a bad feeling about beloved. "Beloved was shining and Paul D didnt like it."


 * Section 1.1 Page 21 "The pulse of red light hadn't coem back and Paul D had not trembled since 1856 and then for eighty-three days in a row." This shows that Paul D is scared of the spirit and that red is supposed to represent the evil.


 * Section 1.2 Page 27 "A few yellow flowers on the table, some myrtle tied around the handle of the flatiron holding the door open for a breeze calmed her.." This shows that because yellow is a warm and inviting color, it shows that she feels fine and doesn't feel threatened.


 * Section 1.2 Page 56, The crickets were screaming on Thursday and the sky, stripped of blue, was white hot at eleven in the morning." This is very descriptive with color so the reader can really picture what they were going through.


 * The orange of the patchwork quilt is described often.
 * section 1.8 pg. 92 (hardcover): "The dark quilt with two orange patches was there with them because Beloved wanted it near her when she slept."


 * Section 1.9, Page 104 Hardcover, "Lay in the keeping-room bed roused once in a while by a craving for color and not for another thing." Baby Suggs in on her death bed and all she wants is to see color.


 * Section 1.9 Page 105 Hardcover "Yet it was to the Clearing that Sethe determined to go - to pay tribute to Halle. Before the light changed, while it was still the green blessed place she remembered: misty with plant steam and the decay of berries" The green blessed place shows the positive connection to nature
 * I also thought that the green may be a symbol of rebirth because in the spring, plants turn green and fill with life. Similar to how Baby Suggs brought the freed slaves "back to life" through her sermons.


 * Section 1.9, Page 105 Hardcover, "Followed by the two girls, down a bright green corridor of oak and chestnut, Sethe began to sweat a sweat just like the other one when she woke, mud-caked, on the banks of the Ohio" the "bright green corridor" Sethe walks down as she enters 124 is somewhat symbolic of walking into the light. She has found a new life at 124. The color green also represents a rebirth. She is free and has a new baby, her life is beginning again, but for real.


 * Hardcover, 1.8, Page 98 "Sethe was looking at one mile of dark water, which would have to be split with one oar in a useless boat against a current dedicated to the Mississippi hundreds of miles away." The dark water is ominous of the dangers of change and travel.


 * Section 1.2 Page 139 "Deep down in her wide black eyes back behind the expressionlessness..." This shows that black represents that she has nothing left.
 * Hardcover, Section 1.12, Page 143, "She will forgo the most violent of sunsets, stars as fat as dinner plates and all the blood autumn and settle for the palest yellow if it comes from her Beloved."


 * In section 1.12, Page 144 it shows Light/Dark relationship. It says,"Darkness or not, she moves rapidly around, reaching, touching cobwebs, cheese, slanting shelves, the pallet interfering with each step." This shows that you have to overcome the darkness no matter how bad it gets. You have to overcome all the bad things in life, no matter how bad they are, or what is happening."


 * In section 1.12, Page 145 it shows light/dark relationship. It says, "It is hard to breathe and even if there were light she wouldn't be able to see anything because she is crying." THis shows that even when their is light, there is light, you still have sad feelings in your life. Even when good things are happening, its hard to forget about all the bad things.


 * When Paul D is having sex with Beloved he keeps repeating the same thing over and over again. "Softly and then so loud it woke Denver, then Paul D himself. "Red heart. Red heart. Red heart." Section 1.11 pg. 138 hardcover


 * Page 133 (hardcover) Section 2.0 Paul D. wasts to go north and a Cherokee tells him to follow the tree flowers. He says that wherever they go, he must go in order to end up where he wants to be. Paul D. takes off. Paul D is a dark figure which might represent negativity or the harsh past he endured. The contrast of him following these bright flowers represents him being lead to a brighter future--The North. "He merely followed in their wake, a dark ragged figure guided by the blossoming plums."


 * Section 2.1 pg. 136 (hardcover) "Summer had been hooted offstage and Autumn with its bottles of blood and gold had everybody's attention." This description is explaining how in Autumn it is as if amounts of blood and gold have been dispersed on the land because of the gold, orange and red leaves that grow and die.


 * Pg. 289 Hardcover "She would have known it anywhere. The post and scrap-lumber fence was gray now, not white."
 * The change in color of the fence shows the passage of time and the change in the attitude of the town towards Denver's family.


 * Happy memories were described in color.
 * p. 192, book 2, 2.1, "The grass was long though, full of white buds and those tall red blossoms people call Diane and something with the leastest little bit of blue."


 * Red represents blood and was one of the last colors Sethe could see.
 * "I dont believe she wanted to get to red, and I understand why, because me and Beloved outdid ourselves with it." pg. 201 2.2
 * White is used to represent light and seeing. It could also represent truth, purity, and heaven.
 * "Trying to get up the stairs. Baby Suggs had them painted white so you could see your way to the top in the dark where lamplight didn't reach." (hardcover pg. 241)


 * Section 2.1, pg 217 "He clutched the red ribbon in his pocket for strength."

Denver describes the beautiful clothes Sethe makes Beloved.
 * Section 3.1, page 282 hardcover, "Bright clothes - with blue stripes and sassy prints."


 * Section 1.16 page 177 hardcover, "Since the whites in them had disappeared and since they were as black as her skin, she looked blind."
 * Section 1.16 page 179 hardcover, "Baby Suggs lost when she slipped in a red puddle and feel." It is describing the red blood.