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After I Left You Those Boys Come In There And Took My Milk
Morrison's novel is fixated on the mental repercussions of assault and mishandle. Dr. Robin E. Field concentrates on Morrison's representation of these injuries. "Such is the situation with Sethe, the most unmistakable of the novel's numerous sufferers, who bears the physical scars of subjugation's horrendous brutality upon her back" (Field 3). Sethe was assaulted by two youthful white young men who held her down and stole her milk, keeping her from bolstering her girl. “After I left you, those boys came in there and took my milk. That’s what they came in there for. Hold me down and took it” (Morrison 19). Sethe thought of her as milk for her little girl to be her most imperative ownership, and in losing it, she lost a vast piece of herself.
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