Beloved #2

"Inside, two boys bled in the sawdust and dirt at the feet of a nigger woman holding a blood-soaked child to her chest with one hand and an infant by the heels in the other. She did not look at them; she simply swung the baby toward the wall planks, missed and tried to connect a second time, when out of nowhere - in the ticking time the men spent staring at what there was to stare at - the old nigger boy, still mewing, ran through the door behind them and snatched the baby from the arc of its mother's swing." Page 67

Before reading this book, I watched the movie Beloved, years before reading the book. Because of this I expected this portion of the book where it would go into detail about when Sethe kills her baby Beloved and attempts to kill her sons Howard and Buglar. Even though I expected it this scene snuck up on me with such shock and graphic detail. It was presented in somewhat of a creeping-tiptoeing matter. This part of the book isn't really talking about Sethe and then your attention is peaked even more when it mentions the barn or shed. As it gets closer and closer to its reveal you been to get the idea that this may be it, this ma be the scene but there's always a chance that you could be wrong.