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Toni Morrison includes Flight in a similiar way, an escape
"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
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 of Flight gives an escape for African Americans
-Flight empowers African Americans
"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
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
An African Shaman