'Song of Solomon\r'

'Sona Ramnani 2/15/12 EN10258 Professor Blumberg Rough Draft2 â€Å"Then she felt the magic, the Afri nookie mystery. Say she rose just as light as a bird. As light as a feather” (Hamilton 3) A tale that liberates most, an African mystery, moves generations of Africans as well(p) as other races with a sense of liberation. â€Å"The pot Could Fly” gives sight a wishful fulfillment. The yarn is a thorough illusion of suffering and of magical powers to reach the liberation the people once had. Flying, is an escape. It leaves one in complete release. The People could disappear” folktale almost makes those who hear it guess that people can actuall(a)y fly to freedom. However, when gain this freedom, there are costs. Leaving ones family behind, or consequences of the escape. Nonetheless, it must(prenominal) have been done. In Toni Morri watchword’s novel metrical composition of Solomon, she liberates us with this sense of flying and escape. The novel, cry of Solomon’s lineaments accept hu existence flight as a natural occurrence, kind of like the folktale shows it, to liberation. Song of Solomon begins with a suicide attempt from an African American man.Ins afternoon tead of provideing to get him kill, people simply pale and observe rather then prevent his throttle thinking that his flight to liberation whitethorn be possible. Throughout the rest of the novel, Morrison traps the reader in themes of attempt for family human relationships, the immensity of ones summons, and independence â€Å"The fathers may soar? And the children may fuck their names”? This quote foreshadows Milkman, the main character’s, journey throughout the novel and his own pursual of freedom and flight. This quote in addition is subject to the affixation between father and son.Milkman has always been distant with his family in some ways and mostly with his father. When receiving the nickname â€Å"Milkman”, â€Å"I t did vigour to improve either one’s relationship with his father” (Morrison 15). Macon Dead was a man with no depth. His keepings revolved around money and fabric items, and showing any sign of love towards his son was uncommon. This relationship created a underlying hatred between father and son and Milkman â€Å"differed from him as overmuch as he dared” (Morrison 63) He soon starts to look for something different, â€Å"a people” or a different nature, ones who disturbance and weren’t that like his family.Chimamanda Adiche, African writer would formulate â€Å"He was looking for a different story”. Unknowingly this is where Milkman’s path to flight begins, where he soon discovers old-fashioned â€Å"southern hospitality”. On his trip to Danville, a stranger offers him a call down and a drink, when Milkman tries to pay the man he receives a reply â€Å"I ain’t got much, exclusively I can afford a b neglect ey e and a lift now and then” (Morrison, 255). His experiences there show him the build of complete generosity and he learns of a new kind of people where he feels connected unlike at home where he always felt like an outsider.This leads Milkman’s explosive transformation, the reader watches him grow selflessness. Helping strangers and he realizes â€Å"From the generator his mother and Pilate had fought for his look, and he had never so much as made with of them a cup of tea” (Morrison, 331). During his journey in Danville, Milkman is on the search for the importance in names. Throughout the novel is has given him a lot of conflict because or where his name was line of reasoningated from and how it had gloomy old pasts to it.In Danville he is on a hunt, an compulsion to learn how his fathers name originated and pursued the origin of his grandfathers name as well. He had come to the realization that, â€Å"When you know your name, you should hang onto it, for unless it is remembered, it will die when you do” (Morrison, 329). This also creates a sense of caring for Milkman, towards his newfound family origin as well as the people he regretfully treated. â€Å"The fathers may soar” excerpt in the quotation really sets in at this maculation in the novel.Flight comes full circle from the beginning to the truly(prenominal) last sentence of the novel. For practically his whole carriage Milkman did not care too much around any other human being. Then he slowly started to change in Danville. He started to care about others and the relationships he had with them â€Å"Milkman felt as cumbrous as he sounded. He had never had to try to make a pleasant impression on a stranger before, never needed anything from a stranger before, and did not remember ever enquire anybody in the world how they were” (Morrison, 229). Milkman became a new person, he was independent nd like his great-grandfather he was sterilize to fly. Ever since he was little he had this goaded state of mind that â€Å"only birds and airplanes could fly- and he preoccupied all interest in himself”(Morrison, 9). His entire life was an unconscious search for his ability to take flight. When eyesight a peacock, Milkman asks his best friend Guitar, â€Å"How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken? ” ?? â€Å"Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down” (Morrison, 179).This directly showed milkman that he needed to give up all the materialistic wants, the hatred toward his family, the incapable lack of emotion and soon he begins to â€Å"not to score or care about the rip at the knee or under the arm” (Morrison, 254) briefly he learns that it is in his blood to fly, that there was fancy and a chance for his to feel free of all the vanities that have been bringing him down fo r years. At the very end of the book Milkman is in a right death situation and he is not algophobic â€Å"He knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it” (Morrison, 337).Works Cited The Danger of A undivided Story. Perf. Chimamanda Adiche. 2009. Online. Hamilton, Virginia. â€Å"Amazon. com: The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (9780679843368): Virginia Hamilton, social lion Dillon, Diane Dillon Ph. D. : Books. ”  Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York: Knopf, 1977. Print. Acknowledgments I would like to take on my classmates as well as Professor for trail me in deep discussions to further my ideas of these novels, readings, as well as videos.\r\n'