Symbols

1.) Sethe's milk- produced to feed babies but Schoolteacher's nephews steal this from Sethe which she sees as the worst thing they could have done to her. This dehumanizing experience scared Sethe as badly as her whippings.
2.) Paul D's Tobacco Tin- this is Paul D's way of expressing how he locks his memories away, like storing tobacco for cigarettes, so that he doesn't have to think about them until he needs to.
3.)Chokecherry tree- stands for the brutality that people endured while serving as slaves and even could represent the burden that Sethe will always carry with her or the internal scarring she will always have similar to that which is carved into her back.
4.) Stamp Paid's Red Ribbon- represents the pain and torment that slavery caused and what was lost to everyone as a whole that was abused during slavery.
5.)124 the house- this represents the number of children Sethe had and how the third child she had was removed from the sequence just as the number is.