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Song of Solomon (Flight (Outside source ("There are innumerable…

- - - - This connects to People could Fly, and the author sincerely believed that people use to be able to fly. (take that into account because maybe its more literal than symbolic)
      - "Yet, we must assume that he lacked something which Milkman later acquires and which enables flight"(To ride the Air).
        
        He is missing heritage, which is his past and the knowledge of his family, which would allow him the ability to fly(literally or symbolically?)
        
        Flight is only succeeded when you know what you truly want and where you came from; learn to let go of physical things and to connect with the people around you. (just a thought)
- - - - Connects with Milkman and his lack of connection to society and now he is starting to feel that he has lost the only person that he can actually connect to. He is kind of like Pilate, an ugly duckling, someone who sticks out or can't fit in. Everyone rejects her, while Milkman rejects everyone else or just undriven to connect with others. #
- - - - Its as if they switch places of power, after she had watched for him and cared for him, but he grew up only to see her as someone lower than himself
        
        "He was a man who saw another man hit a helpless person. And he had interfered. Wasn’t that the history of the world? Isn’t that what men did? Protected the frail and confronted the King of the Mountain? And the fact that the frail was his mother and the King of the Mountain his father made it more poignant, but did not change the essential facts"(75).
      - "Her son had never been a person to her, a separate real person. He had always been a passion"(132).
        
        You have a kid wanting them to achieve all the things that you weren't able to achieve. They are all of your passions, their success becomes yours.
        
        "she saw her son’s imminent death as the annihilation of the last occasion she had been made love to(134).
        
        another thing that Milkman represents to her, same situation that she had with her father, who was the last one that "cared" for her. Milkman is a representation of something else; to her a symbol of the end of being loved by anyone.
  - - - This connects to the old man that Macon killed , "His mouth moved and he mumbled something that sounded like “What for?”(170).
        
        This could connect to racial inequality because the slaves didn't do anything to the whites to get such horrible treatment from them. #
  - - - "Mercy, yes mercy is at the end of grief"( On Visiting the site of a Slave massacre in Opelousas).
        
        maybe a connection, maybe this is a stretch (come back later)
  - - - oral tradition
    - - when you become independent, you become free. Kida like when a teenager gets a car, they become more independent, os they feel freer.
- - - - I think that she is lacking love or a companion or maybe she is hungry for freedom. She could be hungry for many things, but it could be anything maybe we'll find out later.
    - - love at first sight. Such a widespread idea, seen so often to end happily. Maybe the author is showing that there is no such thing as love at first sight by making Milkman's and Hagar relationship fail. Maybe they will get back together again, but it seems that love in this book never lasts long.
    - - degradation of women, Milkman use to love Hagar, but now their relationship is severed because Milkman has grown bored of her. At first, she was a challenge because she was older, which made him attracted to her, Now he says her as the lower class and someone beneath him that he obviously would not marry and that other girls don't even see as a threat.
  - - - She is in a horrible relationship with Macon Dead and is trapped in a life where she has to fake everything, her smile, her food(which is never good enough). She becomes a sort of zombie and needed assurance of the real world something outside her life, a life without freedom a life of being attacked constantly by he husband, not necessarily physically, that was the water mark.
    - - sons help renew love, force the parents to interact and learn more about each other as they teach their child. This can also be seen with the Dew Breaker. But with the Dew Breaker is worked, in Song of Solomon, it wasn't enough. Song Of Solomon is showing how woman craves for love, but men are the ones that cause pain and don't give love. This Shows in this relationship and in Milkman's and Hagar relationship, thus showing that Milkman and his father are the same
  - - - Outside source- by personifying a dog, you start to think about how a dog lives, their life revolves around the owner The owner gives them food and a home. While the owner is away the dog is alone and when he/she comes home the dog gets very excited, but many owners just brush that aside because they need to do other things. The life of a dog is very boring, so the poem is showing that by peeing they are getting your attention and that negative attention is better than being ignored. The connection to the Milkman/s mother is that the owner is like the mother, the dog sees the owner as a person who feeds him, so it 'loves' them in return.
        
        Kind of like how Hagar was trying to kill Milkman, she wanted his love and attention, and she couldn't settle with being ignored, so she went to a more negative approach.
  - - - We don't think of our mother as an individual, more like the person that took care of us the person that feeds us, nurtured us. We are like domestic animals, we are nurtured and fed and in return, we express "love", while the owner is the one actually expressing love by caring for the pet and giving it attention.The other way around, Ruth only loved Milkman because he was her son and she had a duty towards him, but does she really know him or like him for his characteristics. If they meet randomly on a bus or somewhere would they become friends or enemies? #
        
        he is oblivious, but whos fault is this obliviousness- is it because it's the norm to not see past the 'mom' and know what their hopes and dreams are or their goals.
  - - - His love is causing pain, just like Hagar's is, but her love his causing herself pain not others.