Chaos+Motif+and+Themes

= As the motif of Chaos emerges, record moments when the theme is developed interestingly. Add your ideas about what Morrison is trying to say and how she explores the theme. See Motherhood Motif and Themes for an example =


 * Theme
 * p. # "quote"
 * Even though they were in a drastic situation, the prisoners that Paul D was with all worked together to escape and they all looked out for each other.
 * "For one lost, all lost. The chain that held them would save them all or none, and Hi Man was the Delivery." pg. 110 paperback.
 * After Sethe killed her baby there was a lot of chaos. Baby Suggs tried to keep it all together by helping Sethe nurse her live baby. A fight between mother and daughter in law broke out because of the stress of the situation.
 * "They fought then. Like rivals over the heart of the loved, they fought, Each struggling for the nursing child." Pg. 179 hardcover
 * When Denver thinks Beloved has left she begins to have a meltdown
 * pg.123 paper back: "she grabs her hair at her temples....a dream-come-true comes true just o leave her on a pile of newspaper in the dark."


 * Chaos helps distract the town when Sethe decided to kill her child
 * "Nobody warned them, and he'd always believed it wasn't the exhaustion from a long day's gorging that dulled them, but some other thing - like, well, like meanness - that let them stand aside, or not pay attention, or tell themselves somebody else was probably bearing the news already to the house on Bluestone Road where a pretty woman had been living for almost a month." pg. 157 1.17
 * Pg.294 hardcover: Denver's life could never be completely stable
 * "As Denver's outside life improved, her home life deteriorated."