Sethe's Chokecherry Tree Analysis

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This tree is a scar sculpture of a tree on Sethe's back made from a whip, from Sethe’s not so pleasant days at Sweet Home. While she was there she lost her milk to the nephews of a schoolteacher, the milk was for her third child. When she went to tell Mrs. Garner about it and the schoolteacher found out and ordered one of the boys to whip her. The scars are Sethe’s Chokecherry Tree. The passage when she talks to Paul D about this occasion possibly suggests that she was also raped, but the loss of her milk and her care for her children, is the part that resembles the scar. Lets not forget she was pregnant with Denver at the time. Paul D, looking at Sethe, dislikes the way her breasts lay flat on her and is repulsed by the clump of scars on

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