Nothing Can be Forgotten(Close Reading #1)

“It’s so hard for me to believe in it. Some things go. Pass on. Some things just stay. I used to think it was my rememory. You know. Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it’s not. Places, places are still there . If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place--the picture of it--stays, and not just in my rememory, but out their, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean,  even if I don’t think it, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there. Right in the place where it happened,”

Significance:

I think the significance of quotes is that no matter what happens or how many years pass, or whether something is burned down it will always remain inside your head. It will always be a memory. I brings back flashbacks of the past and how you could also have someone else's memories making place you have never been in familiar making a person look familiar like if you knew that person.

This quote reveals that she has so many things in mind. So many memories and flashbacks that just can’t be “burns down,”. Memories will always remain alive. Sethe has so many memories that she just can’t forget. Her past will always be there and when someone comes across 124 they will relive that event. What happened in 124 will always be there it will always be talked about. It would be forgotten.People can often remember an event by placing themselves in the same context they were in when the event happened.  Another things that is brought up is the fact that Sethe had lost her daughter and her 2 sons, she is living a life where she can’t forget her past.

Sethe is emotionally traumatized by both her loss of her children. The loss of children always hurt a mother and it shows how they can’t get over it and wish that their child was their. That is why in the book Sethe keep Denver close and tries to love her as much as she can. She would do anything to defended her. We probably wouldn't be able to understand how a mother feels in the inside, until one day it happens to us. In addition, Slavery can also not be forgotten because we still talk about it today. Slavery was a big issue because African Americans weren't seen a people they were seen as property. In this book slavery was already abolished but ex-slaves still didn't feel free because they weren't treated kindly, they weren't treated equally.