The article, Stampede of Slaves: A Tale of Horror portrays the homicide of a three-year-old girl by her own mother, Margaret Garner, because she does not want her daughter to suffer due to the consternation of slavery. The newspaper articles poses many thematic and well crafted phrases that define the story of Margaret Garner, whose story is the basis of Beloved, the novel by Toni Morrison.
The word weltering means, “to become deeply sunk, soaked or involved, ” (Merriam-Webster) which is an accurate word choice considering the “weltering in its blood.” The world choice implies that the baby girl who had been murdered and is soaked in blood, similar to how Morrison’s define Sethe’s baby as “soaked in red blood.” “Weltering in its blood,” suggests a negative connotation and a tone of dismay and hopelessness. The context in which weltering is used suggest a tinge of personification. The “it” suggest and ambiguous pronoun, but “a deed of horror” is used in the clause before. The word does suggest the “baby girl” as soaked in blood, but all indicates that the “deed of horror” is weltering in blood or can suggest the baby girl …show more content…
“To wear the shackles of slavery” suggest and negative connotation and a tone of darkness. The children are imbued to wear the “shackles.” The manacle is the “chains” and the “legs and arms” is the freedom that Margaret Garner longs for. Figuratively, in context, the children are wearing the chains that confine their freedom from slavery. The “shackles” suggest the engulfing darkness that slavery confines on the individual and Garner wishes to prevent this by the blood of her
The word weltering means, “to become deeply sunk, soaked or involved, ” (Merriam-Webster) which is an accurate word choice considering the “weltering in its blood.” The world choice implies that the baby girl who had been murdered and is soaked in blood, similar to how Morrison’s define Sethe’s baby as “soaked in red blood.” “Weltering in its blood,” suggests a negative connotation and a tone of dismay and hopelessness. The context in which weltering is used suggest a tinge of personification. The “it” suggest and ambiguous pronoun, but “a deed of horror” is used in the clause before. The word does suggest the “baby girl” as soaked in blood, but all indicates that the “deed of horror” is weltering in blood or can suggest the baby girl …show more content…
“To wear the shackles of slavery” suggest and negative connotation and a tone of darkness. The children are imbued to wear the “shackles.” The manacle is the “chains” and the “legs and arms” is the freedom that Margaret Garner longs for. Figuratively, in context, the children are wearing the chains that confine their freedom from slavery. The “shackles” suggest the engulfing darkness that slavery confines on the individual and Garner wishes to prevent this by the blood of her