Time+Shifts

=Record examples of Morrison's Time Shifts throughout the novel.=


 * Book One, Section 1, p. 4-5, "And there it was again. The welcoming cool of unchiseled headstones"
 * Book One, Section 1, p. 8, "Sethe smiled. THis is the way they were - had been. All of the Sweet Home men, before and after Halle, treated her to a mild brotherly flirtation, so subtle you had to scratch for it."
 * Hardcover, 1.5, pg. 62-63. "A young colored woman drifting was drifting from ruin." Paul D compares a memory of living in Rochester and seeing women drifting through the streets to the sight of Beloved.
 * Paperback, 1.8, p. 70. The story shifts from present day to more of the story of Denver's birth
 * Paperback, 1.8, page 77. The page is Denver telling beloved the story of Denver's birth and includes questions from beloved that snap them back to the present.
 * Book One, Section 8, Page 92. Denver is telling Beloved the story of Sethe running away with the white girl, Amy, which transistions into the present.
 * Book One, Section 9, page 86. Shifts to the past at 124 before Sethe arrived, when Baby Suggs was wise and people came from all around to hear her speak.
 * Book One, Section 9, page 101. The story shifts from the present at 124 to the past when Sethe first arrived at 124. The transition takes place by describing the depressed state that the house is in presently.
 * Book Two, Section 1, page 224. Sethe is thinking about how she is stealing from her work and then remembers Sixo's argument on stealing. The story then shifts back to Sweet Home when Schoolteacher was in charge.