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    Guitar Character Analysis It is through the novel The Song of Solomon, that the story of two paradoxical men is revealed. The two, growing up as best friends from extensively different backgrounds seem to develop in contradictory ways but still remain to depend on each other. “The golden eyed boy,” also known as Guitar Bains acts as Milkmans alter ego throughout the book. In The Song of Solomon, written by Toni Morrison, the antagonist, Guitar seems to avail off of Milkmans insecurities and oblivion

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    The ending of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon is both satisfying and ambiguous. The last chapter manages to address everyone's story yet not in a cheesy or over explanatory way. In addition Toni Morrison leaves room for a reader to interpret certain parts of the ending. The array of different endings in Song of Solomon provides a depth to the story that enriches the emotions felt by the reader. When Pilate and Milkman go back to Shalimar to bury Macon they are confronted by Guitar who shoots and

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    Twelve Years a Slave is a book which is written by Solomon Northup. He was born in New York. The book retail the author’s life story as a free black man from the North. He lived, got married to Anne Hampton, a woman of mixed (black, white, and Native American) and worked in New York, where is his family stayed. Besides, he was a great laborer and a violin player. In 1841, at the age of 33 a two con men offered him a profitable work with a high-paying job as a musician playing violin in the sierk

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    Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison focuses heavily on the theme of flight. It focuses so heavily on human flight, in fact, that the story moves into the genre of magical realism. Many characters go through varying definitions of flight all throughout the story. The story begins with the Flight of Robert Smith and ends with the flight of Milkman. Flight can refer to simply escaping, suicide, abandonment, or even literal human flight. Milkman is sorely disappointed as a young person to find out that

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    Topic in Solomon: I am focusing on the family and its structure as described by Solomon in chapter 10. Delving deep into the concepts of extended and nuclear families, family life cycles, different roles and responsibilities in families. The families I will study (see background section for more information) are actually quite distinct in terms of structure and age. Therefore, I will have a glimpse into interactions within the families and between them. I will observe how decisions are made differently

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    of the Life of Frederick Douglass, written by Frederick Douglass and Solomon Northup respectively, documented the lives of how their enslaved authors fought their way to freedom. The books portrayed not only the hardships of their lives as a slave but also how they achieved resistance against their masters and slavery itself. Even though they were both oppressed by racism and the system of slavery, Frederick Douglass and Solomon Northup both successfully fought their masters, aided fellow slaves,

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    claims that justified why the institution of slavery was acceptable, however, many abolitionist made claims that differed the majority opinion. Abolitionist began to publicize stories advocating truths about this institution. Fredrick Douglas and Solomon Northrup shared their life stories where they exposed their experiences as slaves in the Southern world.Slaves holders make several arguments to justify slavery, meanwhile, slaves themselves completely disagree with all the things the masters claim

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    Seven Sins God Hates Proverbs 6: 12-19 Solomon begins his discussion of the seven sins that God hates by mentioning the “naughty person” who is continually devising mischief which is designed to hurt to those about him. He is a liar and a sower of discord. God Hates: 1. A proud look. It is not merely the look that God hates; it is the mind [heart], which the look expresses. 2. A lying tongue. A person may lie by simply telling an untruth, a half-truth or leaving a false impression; however, making

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    It can be said that Song of Solomon is bildungsroman which is defined by The Encyclopedia Britannica as “a class of novel that deals with the [coming-of-age or] formative years of an individual”. Furthermore, in a bildungsroman, a main protagonist usually undergoes some transformation after seeking truth or philosophical enlightenment. In Morrison’s novel, the plot follows the main protagonist Milkman as he matures within his community while developing relationships with others and discovering his

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    Song of Solomon Questions 1.     The characters being “dead” in the text can be related to their race and/or their gender. Milkman can be seen as dead because he has no purpose in life; he doesn’t seem to know what being black means like the other characters in the text do, and he doesn’t realize how him being a man affects the females in the text.     Most of the women are dead because they are left behind or controlled by the men in the story. They do not take their lives for their own, so they

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