Song of Solomon

Sona Ramnani 2/15/12 EN10258 Professor Blumberg Rough Draft2 thence she felt the magic, the African mystery. Say she rose just as free as a bird. As out of work as a feather (Hamilton 3) A tale that liberates most, an African mystery, moves generations of Africans as puff up as other races with a sense of waiver. The People Could wing gives people a wishful fulfillment. The story is a thorough phantasy 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 fly folktale almost makes those who meet it think that people can actually fly to freedom. However, when reaching this freedom, thither are costs. Leaving ones family behind, or consequences of the escape. Nonetheless, it must have been done. In Toni Morrisons novel phone call of Solomon, she liberates us with this sense of flying and escape. The novel, Song of Solomons characters accept hu art object race as a natural occurre nce, physique of the like the folktale shows it, to liberation. Song of Solomon begins with a suicide attempt from an African American man.Instead of trying to get him d accept, people simply watch and defend rather then prevent his leap thinking that his flight to liberation may be possible. Throughout the rest of the novel, Morrison traps the reader in themes of exertion for family descents, the importance of ones prognosticate, and independence The fuck offs may soar? And the children may know their label? This quote foreshadows Milkman, the main characters, journey throughout the novel and his own pursuit of freedom and flight. This quote also is subject to the bond in the midst of father and son.Milkman has always been distant with his family in some ways and broadly with his father. When receiving the nickname Milkman, It did nothing to improve either ones relationship with his father (Morrison 15). Macon Dead was a man with no depth. His directions turn around mon ey and material items, and showing any sign of making love towards his son was uncommon. This relationship created a underlying hatred between father and son and Milkman differed from him as much as he dared (Morrison 63) He short starts to look for something different, a people or a different nature, ones who reverence and werent that like his family.Chimamanda Adiche, African writer would say He was flavor for a different story. Unknowingly this is where Milkmans path to flight begins, where he soon discovers old-fashioned southern hospitality. On his propel to Danville, a stranger offers him a ride and a drink, when Milkman tries to pay the man he receives a reply I aint got much, exclusively I can afford a Coke and a wage hike now and then (Morrison, 255). His experiences there show him the build of complete sympathy and he learns of a naked kind of people where he bumps connected unlike at home where he always felt like an outsider.This leads Milkmans sudden transfo rmation, the reader watches him grow selflessness. Helping strangers and he realizes From the low gear his mother and Pilate had fought for his brio, and he had never so much as do with of them a cup of tea (Morrison, 331). During his journey in Danville, Milkman is on the hunting for the importance in names. Throughout the novel is has given him a haulage of conflict because or where his name was originated from and how it had bad old pasts to it.In Danville he is on a hunt, an obsession to learn how his fathers name originated and pursued the origin of his grandfathers name as well. He had come to the realization that, When you know your name, you should hang onto it, for unless it is remembered, it provide die when you do (Morrison, 329). This also creates a sense of caring for Milkman, towards his new family origin as well as the people he regretfully treated. The fathers may soar excerpt in the quotation really sets in at this point in the novel.Flight comes full circle from the beginning to the precise last sentence of the novel. For practically his whole life Milkman did not care too much round 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 Milkman felt as awkward 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 asking anybody in the world how they were (Morrison, 229). Milkman became a new person, he was independent nd like his great-grandfather he was ready to fly. perpetually since he was little he had this determined state of mind that only if birds and airplanes could fly- and he lost all interest in himself(Morrison, 9). His entire life was an unconscious search for his ability to take flight. When seeing a peacock, Milkman asks his ruin friend Guitar, How come it cant fly no better than a chicken? Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. similar vanity. Cant 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 not to notice or care about the attract at the knee or under the arm (Morrison, 254) Soon he learns that it is in his blood to fly, that there was hope and a chance for his to feel free of all the vanities that have been bringing him down for years. At the rattling end of the book Milkman is in a near death side and he is not afraid He knew what Shalimar knew If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it (Morrison, 337).Works Cited The Danger of A Single Story. Perf. Chimamanda Adiche. 2009. Online. Hamilton, Virginia. Amazon. com The People Could Fly American Black Folktales (9780679843368) Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon Ph. D. Books. Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York Knopf, 1977. Print. Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge my classmates as well as Professor for leading me in deep discussions to further my ideas of these novels, readings, as well as videos.