Sethe believes they fled because of the malevolent presence of an abusive ghost that has haunted their house at 124 Bluestone Road for years. ... These uncanny images resurface in Beloved's monologue in Chapter 22 Song and dance played an important part in the lives of the slaves. ... The stream of consciousness' in chapters 20-24 brings the past and present to life through the words of Sethe, Denver and Beloved. ...
In the later chapters of the book we get an innuendo from Plath that Esther's constant pain and mental health disorder might be attributed to the fact that she never had the opportunity to mourn the death of her father because her mother did not cry, let Esther cry, or even let her attend her father's funeral (Plath 248). ... Nolan is the person in Esther's life who helps her have many realizations and who eventually leads her down the right road and puts her on the path to recovery. ... Finally after being trapped in a hypothetical bell jar throughout the whole book, the glass ...
The pressure to excel is also enormous, and on the first day of the new school year the senior class is informed by their science teacher, "The first twenty questions at the end of chapter one are due tomorrow." ... Curiosity is an innate feature within all of us, and modern teenagers are still exploring the same old roads travelled by the last generation. ...
