Milkman Identity Analysis

In the beginning of the novel, Papa brings home a man named Mr.Morrison from his work to help the family while he is gone to work on the railroad. Mr. Morrison was fired from his old job because he got into a fight with

As part of Inman’s spiritual reassessment, he begins to linger on past events and memories. A few memories do seem to stick out to him such as the Cherokee folktales. Reconsidering all the events that haunt him and folktales he remember, he seems to go deeper into his conscience, while also traveling deeper into the mountains on his journey.

While on his quest for the gold Milkman discovers moral value in his family history. While in Pennsylvania he loses all of his material possessions, which enables him to realize his life shouldn?t revolve around material items and sparks an interest in his family history. From information he gathers while in Pennsylvania he believes the gold he is seeking is in Virginia. While in Virginia Milkman learns he has family history in the town of Shalimar. While in the town Milkman realizes he somehow feels connected to the people there. This is a feeling he never had in his hometown. This connections reminds him of his feelings when he is with his aunt Pilate. This opens a strong need in him to find out about his family?s past.

Even before his life journey also started Milkman those who were supposed to love him unconditionally tried to end him. Milkman 's father was that person; Macon dead was jealous of both his wife 's father and his unborn son. "I know he never told you that he killed my father and that he tried to kill you." (Morrison 124). Milkman 's mother Ruth told him the truth about his father, the man he was supposed to look up to and cherish. When his mother told him that his father tried to make her abort him, he was told that his aunt Pilate was the reason why he was alive. "Pilate was the one who brought you here in the first place ... Pilate? ... Milkman was coming awake" (Morrison 124). The moment in which he found out that his aunt was the reason for his existence was an end to what he felt against his aunt and a beginning. Milkman was starting to become less narrow-minded, he was beginning to leave his child like ways of thinking and started to noticed things and acted in them. Finding out that his aunt saved him made him realize that Pilate was the catalyst in his life. That his aunt someone who his father despised so very much was someone who helps give Milkman a chance in life. As the door that leads to his existing relationship with his father closed another opened; the one that further enhanced the

At the beginning Milkman is not very pleasant, he was similar to his father, self-centered and mean. Macon

“Two Kinds” is a short story written by Amy Tan about a young girl attempting to please her mother, but also cultivate her own identity. Ironically, (or most likely intentionally), there seem to be two different types of themes driving the text: the cultural differences between an immigrant and a natural born citizen of America, and a mother and daughter. The mother is an immigrant from China that believes in the American dream; she believes that anyone can make it in American with enough hard work and practice. However, her daughter was raised in American and does not have the same ideology as her mother. Instead, she believes that people should have their own identity and thoughts, rather than trying to be like someone else or impress other people. Her mother refuses to think in such a way, and instead attempts to make the daughter into a child prodigy. Unfortunately, the daughter gives up trying to please her mother, and instead begins to live her own life, to the disappoint of her mother.

He has a friend named Guitar, who messes around with drugs, and alcohol, and I would like to think that Milkman is just a kindhearted boy who was just led in the wrong direction, due to Guitar’s nature. Milkman’s father, Macon dead Jr. is the literal example of someone being “wrapped up in their work,” since the beginning of the story, where he stopped caring about his wife Ruth, and started abusive towards her, and his relationship with his children is close to nothing, and this alone makes me dislike him. However, his wife Ruth Foster, is a very kindhearted person, and tries to lose herself in little activities. I think that Macon may be able to reveal a theme towards us, and I think it may be along the lines of a time for work, and a time for

Milkman does not have a life of his own and cannot say that he is independent.

Milkman’s journey for an identity takes him down a road in which he becomes as callous as his father.

Before Milkman leaves his home in Michigan, he perceives the world in materialistic, unyielding terms that recall his father's behavior. Indeed, the search for gold that sends him to Virginia reveals his perception that escaping from his past and his responsibilities and finding material treasure will guarantee him a sense of his own identity.

Similarly, Milkman dehumanizes and objectifies the women around him. At the head of the fight, the novel introduces Milkman’s age as “twenty-two and… had been fucking for six years,” highlighting the prominent role that sex with women plays in his maturity and erasing the individuality of the women behind the “fuck” (64). On the surface, his defense of his mother and defiance against his father conjures kindness and compassion; however, Milkman reveals his motives to be of a less pure origin. He struck his father back, not out of love for his mother, calling her “too

Milkman's journey starts in a town called Danville.  Danville is the town where his father grew up and his grandfather was shot by white land owners.  In Danville Milkman learns a lesson about hospitality by the revered who takes him in for no reason other than to help him.  In Danville he also meets Circe who was his father's caretaker after the death of his grandfather.  Circe fills in some of the gap in Milkman's heritage by telling him the

Part one introduces readers to not only Milkman, but also to his family and friends.

Milkman craves to find out where he really fits in the world and find himself. By him getting rid of his burdens he believes that he will be able. Thus through his venture to learn to fly he learns a lot more about himself and the world in general.

Lord of the Flies, an allegorical novel by William Golding, holds truths about mankind’s true nature of existence. The novel explores the savagery in all men that lies dormant, yet when society’s rules cease to exist, the boy’s innocence perishes along with it. The boys attempt to band together and mock the society that they came from, but not understanding the complexity of the situation, results in their society falling into ruins. On the island the boys are returned to man’s primitive nature, without rules or discipline, and they slowly drift into anarchy. Without proper guidance, the boys resort to cloaking their innocence with body paint to survive. With the body paint coating their skin, the boys bury their old personas within and allow themselves to commit acts that society would frown upon. When Jack’s tribe uses the facade of body paint to dissociate themselves from civilization’s morals, they denote that hiding one’s true identity liberates them from the constraints of society.