After you complete your reading for today, we'd like you write your journal entry for chapter 9 as a blog post. The focus of it revolves about the issue of Memory, Rememory, and the Power of the Past - what is the novel saying about these topics at this point? What are the challenges and issues that arise when the past is either raised or specifically avoided? When is it embraced - when is it hidden - why?
Throughout chapter 9 Sethe revisits her past of Baby Sugg's speech because the "words whispering in the keeping room were too little." She decided to visit the clearing where Baby Suggs had last given her preach and decided to sit down and remember the speach along with the remembrance of her husband. She wanted to find out more information of where her husband was and why he left her when Sethe thought, "get a clue from her husband's dead mother as to what she should do with her sword and shield now." Sethe had consistently been thinking about Halle and if she should marry Paul D. and before she could marry Paul D. she had to find out why Halle had left her. In the end she decided that even though Halle had left because of the "iron in his mouth"she had to move on. She moved on to Paul D. because of "trust and rememory." In loving Paul D. she remembered her love for Halle. Paul D. was one of the only people she could have married that would actually be able to understand what she was doing and why and what her past was because Paul D. was a sweet home man. To Sethe, the clearing represented the memory of Halle and Baby Suggs and her family. She brought Denver and Beloved there just to remember. Rememory was brought up only in the presence of the name of Baby Suggs. 
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