aring a story being told. Events that occurred during and after Sethe's freedom are slowly placed together as the novel goes on.
             Sethe needs to remember her past in order to rebuild her identity: "Some things just stay. I used to think it was my rememory. You know. Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places, are still there. If a house burns down it 's gone, but the place--the picture of it--stays, and not just in rememory, but out there in the world" (Page 35). These types of memories help Sethe to keep her senses. Without these memories to keep things in perspective she would surely go insane.
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