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“if a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.” toni morrison "in this country, american means white. everybody else has to hyphenate." who was toni morrison? chloe anthony wofford morrison (born chloe ardelia wofford; february 18, 1931 – august 5, 2019), known as toni morrison, was an american novelist. died: august 5, 2019 (aged 88) new york city, u.s occupation:novelist essayist children’s writer proffesor education: horward university(ba) cornell university(ma) notable works: the bluest eye(1970) sula(1973) song of solomon(1977) tar baby(1981) beloved(1987) notable awards:presidential medal of freedom national humanities medal nobel prize in literature pulitzer prize for fiction spouse: harold morrison(m.1958; div:1964) children:2 song of solomon song of solomon is one of her most successful novel and it is morrison's third novel.published in 1977. song of solomon is often classified as an impressionistic coming-of-age novel, or bildungsroman, that merges elements of fantasy and reality. …

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e and adopt the value system of the white mainstream culture. as a result, he finds himself alienated from his family, his community, and his african heritage. jake (macon dead, sr.)- milkman’s grandfather. the youngest son of solomon and ryna, he is murdered by whites for trying to protect his land character more primary… guitar bains-milkman's friend, confidant, and intellectual sparring partner. a street-wise hustler, skilled hunter, and political activist, guitar's arrogance and skewed sense of justice leave little room for compromise. hagar-pilate's granddaughter and milkman's cousin and lover. obsessed with romantic love, hagar internalizes the ideals of white female beauty. ruth foster dead-"the dead doctor's daughter." ruth, milkman's mother, is a frail, fragile woman who copes with her empty life by escaping to a fantasy world and maintaining near-incestuous relationships with her father and son. secondary characters: reba-pilate's unmarried daughter. reba's life centers around her daughter, hagar, and her …

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milkman's father, macon, and macon's sister, pilate, ran away from home after their father was murdered for protecting his land. however, after a disagreement between them, they each went their own way. although both macon and pilate eventually end up in the same unnamed michigan town, macon refuses to speak to his sister, whom he feels is an embarrassment to his social position in the town. this section ends with milkman's decision to leave michigan in search of pilate's illusory gold — milkman's "inheritance" — which macon is sure his sister hid in one of the many places she lived prior to coming to michigan. part ii (chapters 10-15) begins with milkman's arrival in danville, pennsylvania, where his paternal grandfather had built the near-mythological lincoln's heaven, a prosperous farm for which he was killed. unable to find pilate's gold in danville and prompted by the mysterious stories surrounding his ancestors, …

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milkman resembles his father, macon dead ii, a ruthless landlord who pursues only the accumulation of wealth. milkman is afflicted with a genetic malady, an emotional disease that has its origins in oppressions endured by past generations and passed on to future ones. milkman’s grandfather, macon dead, received his odd name when a drunk union soldier erroneously filled out his documents (his grandfather’s given name remains unknown to milkman). eventually, macon was killed while defending his land. his two children, macon jr. and pilate, were irreversibly scarred by witnessing the murder and became estranged from each other. pilate has become a poor but strong and independent woman, the mother of a family that includes her daughter, reba, and her granddaughter, hagar. in contrast, macon jr. spends his time acquiring wealth. both his family and his tenants revile him. by the time milkman reaches the age of thirty-two, he feels stifled …

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asions. after arriving in montour county, pennsylvania, milkman discovers that there is no gold to be found. he looks for his long-lost family history rather than for gold. milkman meets circe, an old midwife who helped deliver macon jr. and pilate. circe tells milkman that macon’s original name was jake and that he was married to an indian girl, sing. encouraged by his findings, milkman heads south to shalimar, his grandfather’s ancestral home in virginia. milkman does not know that he is being followed by guitar, who wants to murder milkman because he believes that milkman has cheated him out of his share of the gold. while milkman initially feels uncomfortable in shalimar’s small-town atmosphere, he grows to love it as he uncovers more and more clues about his family history. milkman finds that jake’s father, his great-grandfather, was the legendary flying african, solomon, who escaped slavery by flying back …

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“if a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.” toni morrison "in this country, american means white. everybody else has to hyphenate." who was toni morrison? chloe anthony wofford morrison (born chloe ardelia wofford; february 18, 1931 – august 5, 2019), known as toni morrison, was an american novelist. died: august 5, 2019 (aged 88) new york city, u.s occupation:novelist essayist children’s writer proffesor education: horward university(ba) cornell university(ma) notable works: the bluest eye(1970) sula(1973) song of solomon(1977) tar baby(1981) beloved(1987) notable awards:presidential medal of freedom national humanities medal nobel prize in literature pulitzer prize for fiction spouse: harold morrison(m.1958; div:1964) children:2 song of solomon so...

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