Sethe Morrisons Use Of Animal Language Analysis

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Sethe is afraid of schoolteacher because she was afraid that he would take her children from her and she didn't want them living their life as a slave and to be treated badly. Morrison's use of animal language reinforces this because she further reveals why Sethe was scared of schoolteacher. If schoolteacher took her children they would have been taken and lived as slaves. Sethe did not want her children to be treated as animals in the way that she before she finally escaped. In the shed after witnessing what happened, it says that "the nephew, the one who had nursed her while his brother held her down..."(176) was there shocked by what Sethe had done. He didn't realize that just for beating her she would respond in such a manner. Sethe was