Tree+Imagery

=Record Images of Trees in Beloved Here. Please include the quote and the page number.=


 * Book 1, Section 1, p. 7 "Boys hanging from the most beautiful sycamores in the world. It shamed her--remembering the wonderful soughing trees rather than the boys. Try as she might to make it otherwise, the sycamores beat out the children every time and she could not forgive her memory for that."
 * Book 1, Section1, p.21, hardcover. "He rubbed his cheek on her back and learned that way her sorrow, the roots of it; it's wide trunk and intricate branches."
 * Book 1, sec. 3, pg 28 "In these woods, between the field and the stream, hidden by post oaks, five boxwood bushes planted in a ring, had started stretching toward each other four feet high,....Bent low, Denver could crawl into this room..."-this is another way for Denver to get away (she is secluded here)
 * Book 1, Section 1, p.19 " 'But that's what she said it looked like. A chokecherry tree. Trunk, branches, and even leaves.Tiny little chokecherry leaves.' "
 * Book 1, Section 1, p.17 hardcover, "I got a tree on my back and a haint in my house, and nothing in between but the daughter I am holding in my arms."
 * Book 1, Section 2, p.25 hardcover, "because trees were inviting; things you could trust and be near; talk to if you wanted to as he frequently did since back when he took the midday meal in the fields of Sweet Home."
 * Book 1, Section 2, p.27 hardcover, "They stood back and waited for her to put it on the ground (at the foot of a tree) and leave."
 * Book 1, Section 8, p 93 hardcover, "It's a tree, Lu. A chokecherry tree."
 * Since this is the one I was planning to add, I believe the author included this as a symbol of growth. Amy talks about new branches on the tree, maybe making a connection to Sethe running away as a new branch, or chapter, in her life.
 * Book 1, Section 8, p 95 hardcover, "Amy returned with two palmfuls of web, which she cleaned of prey then draped on Sethe's back, saying it was like stringing a tree for Christmas."
 * Book 1, Section 9, p101 hardcover, "Helped her endure the chastising ghost; refurbished the baby faces of Howard and Buglar and kept them whole in the world because in her dreams she saw only their parts in trees; and kept her husband shadowy but //there//-- somewhere."
 * Book 1, Section 9, p. 103 hardcover, "Then she shouted, 'Let the children come!' and they ran from the trees towards her.........They stepped out one by one from among the ringing trees."
 * Book 1, Section 8, p. 93, " It's a tree, Lu. A chokecherry tree. See, here's the trunk--it's red and split wide open, full of sap, and this here's the parting for the branches. You got a might lot of branches. Leaves, too, look like, and dern if these ain't blossoms. Tiny little cherry blossoms, just as white. Your back got a whole tree on it."
 * Book 1, Section 10, p. 131 hardcover,"Moss wiped their faces as they fought the live-oak branches that blocked their way."

In chapter 1.10, the trees that Paul D names represent his escape from Albert, Georgia and his path the freedom. He names specific trees before the rainstorm that allowed him and his fellow prisoners to escape their cages and then again as he makes his way to the North by following the blossoms.
 * Section 1.10, pg. 109 "Cypress, yellow poplar, ash and palmetto drooped under five days of rain without wind."
 * "'Follow the tree flowers,' he said, 'only the tree flowers.'" book 1, Section 1.10, pg. 112
 * Section 1.10, pg. 112 "So he raced from dogwood to blossoming peach. When they thinned out he headed for the cherry blossoms, then magnolia, chinaberry, pecan, walnut and prickly pear. At last he reached a field of apple trees whose flowers were just becoming tiny knots of fruit."


 * Section 1.11, pg. 134 hardover "Some things are like that, he thought, good-sleep places. The base of certain trees here and there..."
 * Section 2.1, pg 205 hardcover "The live oak and soughing pine on the banks enclosed them and absorbed their laughter while they fought gravity for each other's hands."
 * Section 2.1, pg. 210, "They had reached the twin chestnuts and the white house that stood behind them. "See what I mean?" he said. "Big trees like that, both of em together ain't got the leaves of a young birch."
 * Baby Suggs preached in the clearing of the trees. This was the place she felt like she could do the most good.
 * Hardcover pg. 209 "They were standing Richmond Street, ankle deep in leaves." The leaves on the ground signify a change in season and also a change in the dynamic of Sethe's house, as Beloved and Sethe become closer and closer to becoming the same person.
 * Book 3 Page 292, Hardcover, "Two days later denver stood on the porch and noticed something lying on the tree stump at the edge of the yard. She went to look and found a sack of white beans...."