‘Not a house in the country ain’t packed to its rafters with some dead Negro’s grief. We lucky this ghost is a baby. My husband’s spirit was to come back in here? Or yours?... You lucky. You got three left. Three pulling at your skirts and just one raising hell from the other side. Be thankful, why don’t you? I had eight. Every one of them gone away from me. Four taken, four chased, and all, I expect, worrying somebody’s house of evil’... ‘My firstborn. All I remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that’s all I remember.’ (6)
This conversation between Baby Suggs and Sethe helps explain that even after death Baby Suggs was still a mother of eight who died and haunts the house. While Sethe, a mother of three who are still alive, should be thankful that nothing happened to them. In Baby Suggs’ past, she only remember her firstborn enjoying the burned bottom of bread. Baby Suggs trying to be a mother during her past and the Lord had taken all eight of her children away from her. This also explains the relationship between characters and religion and the supernatural.
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The character are related by relationship by slavery and family, this also relates to religion because people can be relation through the Lord, and as a person dies they are still related to us. The novel mentions the characters praying to the Lord, telling us that some of the characters are religious and are related to another because of it. The novel has very disturbing things throughout the novel but it also helps explain the connections the characters towards each other. Being related to ghost can be very disturbing, knowing that someone you know is still wondering around you. The connections with the characters are disturbing and confusing but having