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Redemption In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon

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Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon proves to be nothing more than a male on a search for family and self-redemption. However, the central plot of the novel revolved around the past of the family. Therefore, the 2007 prompt discuss the phenomenon of past conflict, and Song of Solomon is a great novel to use for this prompt. The families disturbing past takes place when Milkman’s father, Macon, and Milkman’s aunt, Pilate, are in a cave. This is when Macon kills a white gentleman. Several years later Pilate returns to the cave to collect this man’s bones. Pilate states “You can’t just fly on off and leave a body” (Morrison 146). This describes the pressure that Pilate felt of cleaning up her and her brother’s past. Also, the past of Ruth haunts
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