Did anyone else notice the difference in opinions between genders on Thursday's class? Even after it was brought up, that men maybe could not relate as well to Sethes's situation and therefor saw this as a more black and white situation of her actions being wrong, no male raised their hand to argue that her actions may have been justified. Just the same, no females raised their hand and were addament about not doing the same as Sethe. I am interested to see if my little hypothesis is wrong.
In addition, I wanted to point out (what I thought to be) one of the most powerful quotes in the book. So powerful I got down out of bed and grabbed a pencil to underline it. It may also shed light on why Sethe did what she did.
"...learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included her children."
I thought Beloved was an excellant book.