Song of Solomon

Sona Ramnani 2/15/12 EN10258 Professor Blumberg Rough Draft2 Then she felt the magic, the African mystery. Say she rose just as innocuous 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. The People Could Fly gives plurality a wishful fulfillment. The story is a thorough fantasy 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 go away folktale almost makes those who hear it cerebrate that people can actu exclusivelyy fly to freedom. However, when reaching this freedom, thither are costs. Leaving ones family behind, or consequences of the escape. Nonetheless, it moldiness have been done. In Toni Morrisons novel poesy of Solomon, she liberates us with this sense of flying and escape. The novel, Song of Solomons characters accept human flight as a natur al occurrence, kind of 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 down, people simply expect and observe 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 struggle for family races, the immenseness of ones come across, and independence The fathers may soar? And the children may know their names? This quote foreshadows Milkman, the main characters, journey throughout the novel and his own by-line of freedom and flight. This quote besides is subject to the bond among father and son.Milkman has always been distant with his family in some ways and mostly 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 cares revolved around money and stuff items , and showing any sign of love towards his son was uncommon. This relationship created a underlying hatred between father and son and Milkman differed from him as such(prenominal) as he dared (Morrison 63) He soon starts to look for something different, a people or a different nature, ones who care and werent that like his family.Chimamanda Adiche, African writer would phrase He was looking for a different story. Unknowingly this is where Milkmans path to flight begins, where he soon discovers old-fashioned southern hospitality. On his trip to Danville, a stranger offers him a befool 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 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 Milkmans explosive transformation, the reader watches him grow selflessness. Helping strangers and he realizes From the beginning his mother and Pilate had fought for his breeding, 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 originated from and how it had pestilential 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 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. The fathers may soar excerpt in the quotation really sets in at this head up in the novel.Flight comes full circle from the beginni ng to the very last sentence of the novel. For practically his whole life Milkman did not care too much about 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 viscous 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 inquire anybody in the world how they were (Morrison, 229). Milkman became a new person, he was independent nd like his great-grandfather he was unsex to fly. Ever since he was little he had this determined state of mind that 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 visual perception a peacock, Milkman asks his best friend Guitar, How come it cant fly no better than a chicken? Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it d own. Like 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 expose or care about the rip at the knee or under the arm (Morrison, 254) curtly 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 very end of the book Milkman is in a about death situation 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 wholeness 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 live my classmates as well as Professor for leading me in deep discussions to further my ideas of these novels, readings, as well as videos.