A Fruit of Unity and Division
The house of 124 is known throughout the story to be isolated following the incident in the woodshed. What happened before, however, wasn’t discussed in much detail. The community of Bluestone Road, while once united, didn’t help Sethe. No one warned her of Schoolteacher coming to get her and her children, leading to her being caught midway. Leading up to this scene, we are told about one of the last moments 124 was treated well in the community. We are told that Stamp Paid traveled six miles “with two buckets to a place near the river's edge that only he knew about where blackberries grew,” shredding his clothes, getting bitten and stung by bugs, and bleeding from the thorns bruising him (Morrison 160). After enduring all of this, he feeds the berries to Denver, only three weeks old at the time. It was a happy moment, aside from some telling him the blackberries were too intense for a baby, and Stamp Paid a...