Heart+Imagery

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


 * Section 1.9, Page 102 "[Baby Suggs] decided that, because slave life had 'busted her legs, back, head, eyes, kands, kidneys, womb, and tongue,' she had nothing left to make a living with but her heart-- which she put to work at once."


 * Section 1.9, Page 104 "More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart."
 * Baby Suggs is explaining the importance of the heart, especially in being human, because she is trying to restore humanity to the former slaves.


 * Section 1.7, page 86. " He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in his chest where the red heart used to be." Paul D and Sethe where talking about their past slave life. There was so much pain and trama in the memory it has caused Paul D to feel like he didnt have a heart anymore from all the things he had been through.


 * section 1.11, book 1, p. 117, "Red heart. Red heart."
 * Refers back to the quote from 1.7, about Paul D's red heart, which had been replaced by the tobacco tin he feels he has now
 * Section 1.15, pg. 159 hardcover, "But she held her heart still, afraid to form questions: What about Sethe and Halle; why the delay? Why didn't Sethe get on board too? Nobody could make it alone."
 * Section 2.1, pg 233-234 hardcover, "And the heart that beat inside it had not for a single moment stopped in her hands."