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Macon Dead In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon

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In the novel, Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison develops the character Macon Dead, who acquired the nickname of Milkman.The actions of others can influence a life and the course of life for a person that has no real idea or firmness in decision making of their own. Milkman gets his nickname because he was breastfed by his mother at an oddly old age, and a man sees that through a window and begins laughing. While the name is is quite literal to the actual situation that made his acquire it such as being breast fed. Throughout the novel Milkman grows up rather advantaged and sheltered. And he literally mooches off of what other people make or produce linking back to his nickname of milkman as he is explicitly taking what his mother had made. Milkman
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