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African American Folklore: Flying Africans

In Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison includes Flight in a similiar way, an escape

Flight is Freedom

Chapter 1

Chapter 10

"The airplane ride exhilirated him, encouraged illusion and a feeling of invulnerability"- p. 220

"O Sugarman done fly away

Sugarman done gone

Sugarman cut across the sky

Sugarman gone home..."

Flight, or suicide is a way to experience freedom, the stresses and pains of life are relieved through death.

Milkmans flight frees him, he doesn't feel the pressure from the problems and the interference of others

The Tale of Flight

Flight

Many cultures have tales and myths of flying

Flight is often seen as a form of Freedom: people can escape anything and go anywhere they desire

Ebos Landing, 1803,

According to the legend a group of slaves escaped into the swamp and turned into buzzards and flew away.

Flight is used in folklore to allow African Americans to feel freedom from an oppressive society

Through the freedom of Flight, Milkman begins to truly feel independance.

The Tale

- The tale of Flight gives an escape for African Americans

-Flight empowers African Americans

Chapter 10 as a Turning Point

"Milkman wanted to do this by himself, with no input from anybody. This one time he wanted to go solo. In the air, away from real life, he felt free, but on the ground, when he talked to Guitar, just before he left, the wings of all those other peoples nightmares flapped in his face. " p. 220

Milkman is becoming, independant minded, unique and is begining self- realisation

Bibliography

Milkmans Ancestor

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ebos-landing

http://joemarkmusic.com/id3.html

http://www.inquisitr.com/674652/suicide-jumper-kills-5-year-old-girl-after-landing-on-top-of-her/

http://www.academia.edu/4140161/African_Culture_Folklore_and_Myth_in_Toni_Morrison_s_Song_of_Solomon_Discovering_Self_Identity

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