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her tree has weltered a little, which means that her family bond is not as strong, the tree does not die, because it has a strong root. A root that represents all of the sorrow’s of her life, but she is still strong and is willing to fight to get rid of the weltering branches and sprout new ones, which represents new hope, new life and new beginning.
In comparison with Sethe, many of us could probably relate to Sethe and the tragedies and devastations she has had to face. Like her, we and the people around us have had to face death, neglect, uncertainties, self-doubt or inner demons. Sethe explains that she took her baby’s life in order to save her from the treacherous world that she would have greeted. She did not want her baby to grow up in slavery like she had to, or starve because she did not have any milk to feed her. “….and I could not let her nor any of em live under schoolteacher. That was out”(163). But was that really an excuse to use for what she had done by taking ...

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truth about the horrific actions of her mother. She wondered what would stop her mother from killing her, if killing was so easy for her.

I love my mother but I know she killed one of her own daughters, and
tender as she is with me, I’m scared of her because of it. She missed
killing my brothers and they knew it. They told me die-witch! stories to
show me the way to do it, if ever I needed to….I’m afraid the thing that
happened that made it alright for my mother to kill my sister could happen
again. I don’t know what it is, I don’t know who it is, but maybe there is
something else ...

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