SETHE

Sethe is the protagonist of the story . When she was thirteen ,she was sold to the Garner family. As a slave , sethe had many responsibilities . She was responsible for cooking and cleaning the house . She was not respected by anyone ; especially the other men slaves who would consider her as a meat. She was weak and could not really help herself. However , she had to obey her masters' instructions and rules.For more than five years , she had to bear all the misery she was enduring by simply living in this house. When she was fourteen, she was forced to choose a lover - and by lover I mean someone's needs she had to satisfy- in order to protect herself . In the case she wouldn't choose a lover , the other men in the house would have abused her one by one. How would you describe being forced to choose a lover ? this, readers, is slavery . The person has no freedom . She is under the pressure - not for her benefits , but for someone else's benefits. Later , she married her lover. what marriage , when the conception was simply to satisfy her lover needs? soon after she married , her child was born , then another, then another and another. You would think readers that her masters would get pity on her . However, she still has to do her usual tasks around the house . Mrs Garner , who was also a woman refused to aknowledge her difficulties/ Like many wives of great planters, she was also bound by her husband's rules and by wealth, and by discrimination.



Sethe sufferings would become harder , when Mr Garner 's brother will come live at the plantation. In the beginning , he acts as if he understood sethe and liked her manners. however , as the days passed , he started to whip her - sometimes, for dimple mistakes she would make . after a while, Sethe could not bear no more and came up with a plan . Seee readers , she was being whipped , while she was pregnant . What great moments of sufferings ! One night, she left everything behind and went away . She has nowhere to go , but her main objective was to get as far away possible from this house.


This is her story , but even after she escaped , memories from her most diffult days still haunt her .Thus . she will always be slave of her past.