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Themes:

- money and display of it// Reputation

- death

- Mr. Smith, their last name, milkman's grandma

- nature

- family dynamics

- naming (also some info in Geography)

- not doctor street, no mercy,

- colors: red, white, blue, black

- flight: smith -> milkman -> Porter

- Pilate has no belly button, disconnected to her heritage

Magical Elements

Time

  • know before he is born
  • ch 1
  • day before you die
  • 116

Colors

Dream of Tulips

pg 104-105

Names

1. the dream itself

ruth + tulips

2. Milk's response

+nature of dreams

Fake roses

have no purpose

pg 187, 213, 10

reference pg 133?

Heddy

red, white, blue and black in ch 1

warm colors (orange, yellow, red) in ch 2 even though talking about death -- also some green

also ch 2 pg 41 black might as well be a rainbow

  • why tulips?
  • snake or sex linked
  • she was playful towards this
  • lack of attention from her father so this might explain why she reacts this way
  • also she also has weird relationships with men
  • daddy issues

Milk's reaction

Solomon

Ryna

Shalimar

- do nothing

while tulips basically rape her

- related to the father hitting scene

- why did he hit him?

- Ruth + sisters think he did nothing

could fly

red roses

white peacock ch 8

pride

white bull

white hen

milk = white

too much pride???

white rat (dr. foster) 73

20 Others

Sing Dead

find out in ch 10

Crow

Macon Dead Sr. // Jake

?

Macon Sr. wouldn't let anyone say this name

Doctor

"Everybody wants the life of a black man. Everybody" (222)

blue wings, water

"negroes don't like the water" 35

Susan Byrd

Pilate Dead

Macon Dead Jr

Ruth Foster (Dead)

Heritage

Redlining + Great Migration

green sack

money

dying tree

Heritage and African Folklore

burial

- Zoned areas on a map where something is desirable

- Redlining: denying or limiting of financial services

- Macon Jr. is in Real Estate : works in 4th grade, wants to purchase in 1st

○ Problems with this

○ Racial tension

- Relocation??

Flying African Specifically

Morrison confronts and subverts our assumptions of hwar colors mean, asserting that we never just see a thing, we're always bringing our past knowledge + experience in to making meaning (consciously or not)

Reba

123 - Fairfield Cemetery

Dr. Foster

The Great Migration

- Large waves of African Americans fled from the south to the north

- Violence

○ Racism

○ Jim crow laws

○ KKK

- Culture

○ Harlem renaissance

§ Lit

§ Music

- Flight: only birds and airplanes could fly pg 9

○ Not true, migration

- Names: connection to heritage

- Change

○ Macon Dead III --> Milkman

○ Location

- Song: sugarman pg 6

○ Opinion

Flight

  • heritage = valued objects and qualities
  • flying africans:
  • magic
  • wings
  • sweet scent of Africa
  • Milkman needs an escape
  • milkman will escape through learning about his heritage
  • Milkman is the only one who has taken initiative to escape
  • sacrifices: leave everything he knows

Magdalene (Lena) Dead

First Corinthians Dead

Milkman (Macon) Dead III

name change: disconnects him from his father

Hagar

Geography

Civil Rights

Home

7 Days

Setting

names and the past: 4,5,14-15, 17-18, 23,27,

118

Guitar's View

"'he is my home in this world' 'And i am his,' said Ruth" 137

Hagar + Ruth talking about Milk

places:

  • Michigan
  • Danville
  • Virginia

Milkman's View

Birmingham Church Bombing

  • "O can't such my teeth or say 'Eh, eh, eh.' I had to do something. And the only thing left to do is balance it; keep things on an even keel. pg 154
  • Every death is the death of five to seven generations pg 154
  • "it was thier way of explaining what they believes was white madness- crimes planned and executed in a truly lunatic manner against total standers." 100
  • More important, they believed the crimes they committed were legitimate because they wree committed in the heat of passion: anger, jealousy, loss of face, and so on." 100
  • action becomes habit
  • you are what you do
  • 161, a torpeo is a torpedo
  • also a snake is a snake
  • it you become what you hate, you lose

Milkman believes that some people are "dumb enough to believe that if they killed one man his whole line died" (236)

this idea emphasizes that he thinks the 7 Days is stupid

7 guys who kill random white guys when a black person gets murdered. Guitar is the Sunday guy

race is a numbers game

  • self-defense = acceptable
  • culture-defense = honorable
  • sacrifice life or morality

"names had meaning. no wonder Pilate put hers in her ear. When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do" (329)

bad = punished

good = reward

to do the right thing, knowing it sends you to hell is the height of morality

if...

bad = reward = sinner

good = punished = above morality

  • KKK was responsible for a lot of the bombings
  • happened Sept. 15, 1963
  • killed 4 little girls (African American), blinded one, and injured 20 others
  • Birmingham = Bombingham
  • KKK leader was convicted of murder
  • created civil rights act + voting act
  • Guitar wants to kill 4 little white girls
  • will Milkman be involved?

- 14 yr old and killed him for whistling at a white

○ Brutally, viscously murdered

- Murders were acquitted of all charges

- Symbol of racism

- Open casket = important b/c he was not hidden

- Guitar compares Till's death to the situation between Milkman and his father

- Milkman sees Till's death as insignificant

○ Will he recognize that something has to change?

- Will Guitar or Milkman end up being involved in racial violence?

- Easy to recognize change when you have nothing to lose

- Spark for civil rights

○ Kindling was that he was the same

○ Not about the particular death that was significant but it is the flaw in the system

People in the 7 Days:

Porter

Mini-Timeline

Food

  • Porter
  • Guitar
  • Empire State
  • Railroad Tommy
  • Hospital Tommy
  • Nero
  • man (milk doesn't know his name)

Emmitt Till ch 3

7 Days ch 6

church bombing - ch 8

n v s

pg 115

"I love ya! I love ya all. Don't act like that. you women. stop it. don't act like that. don't you see I love ya? I'd die for ya, kill for ya. I'm saying I love ya. I'm telling ya. Oh, God ave mercy. What I'm gonna do?.... I'll take hate any day. But don't give me love. I can't take no more love, Lord. I can't carry it. Just like Mr Smith. he couldn't carry it. It's too heavy. Jesus you know. " 26

Biblical Names

fight is turning towards children

201 reference to pg 1

  • tea pg 115
  • eggs
  • ch 2 w/ Pilate
  • 115, 116
  • fried eggs 253
  • orange juice 253
  • bacon 253
  • grits and biscuits 253

Education

what is North v. South pg 114

congo vs. French pg 116

North Pole pg 117

"people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. " - Guitar 87

Milkman's Travels

Sweet - Ginger Smell

Narrative

pg 185, 199, 239, 287, 311

  • hunger will be a theme
  • ch 11 it is gold
  • literally tracing Pilate's past
  • reconnects Milkman with the past
  • places:
  • Detroit
  • bus to danville
  • first sign of joy at his family
  • Shalimar, VA
  • "Deserve"
  • "I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness" (277)
  • he has nothing --> allows him to bounce back
  • man
  • own things
  • protector ----> this journey

look at event surrounding it

  • segregation in schools caused unequal level of education
  • edu -> job -> house
  • brown vs. board of education
  • little rock 9
  • enrolled in a white school
  • Who is educated in the novel?
  • Dr. Foster
  • First Corinthians
  • other docs, lawyers, teachers
  • everyone else is uneducated
  • edu = independence?
  • does a guy need edu to be a man?
  • does edu matter?

Pilate Dead: Pontius Pilate ordered the crucifixion of Jesus

Reba: Rebekah was the wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau

Hagar: Hagar is Sarah and Abraham’s maid, gets banished

Magdalene called Lena: Mary Magdalene traveled with Jesus and was present at the crucifixion and resurrection.

First Corinthians: relates to Paul – he talked about the importance of unity under the church and the importance of love

Ruth: Ruth followed her mother-in-law even when she was not wanted – showed her loyalty

Circe: possibly meant “bird” in Latin translation of the Greek. In Greek mythology she is a sorceress

Biblical Allusions

Song of Solomon

Snake

Mercy

In the Bible it is a lyrical poem in the Old testament about two lovers - a young black maiden and King Solomon.

pg 54 - 55

Pilate is compared to a snake

tulips pg 104

Page 207

the white man's bones that Pilate carries around are Mr. Soloman's

  • old testament:
  • allusions to nature, riches
  • Hagar realizes how much Milkman did not love her
  • thinks it is b/c of her looks
  • elements of vanity
  • beauty = love??
  • Hagar is held down my vanity
  • in bible Hagar receives mercy from an angel

3rd day he rose again

dad seen as ghost on 3rd day

pg 168

Characterization

Milkman

Macon:

Pilate:

pg 86ish ch 3

on his journey he sheds his possessions as he goes back in time to the south

Pg 40 - 41

Pg 63

pg 51

hit scene: why do the women react the way they do

milk = white

white = pride

milk = pride?

- who is she, is she a snake? 40-41

he recognizes that society is broken

wants the crumbs if can't have the pie

is he a man for doing this?

is this moral?

impacting next generation?

"the fact was he wanted the gold because it was gold and he wanted to own it." 257

pg 31, 35

- "concentration on things behind him"

- don't know about his past at all

- thinks he has no future

- without a past there is no future?

- whites suppressing him?

- (beginning asks "what are the men you know really like?")

- incest = look inward

- care about themselves, not community

pg 51

- his childhood is all about what he owns

- father was a slave so owning land was important

- referred to as heaven

- taken away

- is this an explanation or an excuse for what he is/how he acts?

- connection

she saved Milkman's life before he was born

- connected to nature

- likes specific answers

- both name and snake have connotations of the devil

- think she is not this and this is juxtaposition

- believes in people

- isolated (different than Macon (foils) but similar)

cares for him

Happiness

"Milkman was five feet seven then but it was the first tie in his life that he remembered being completely happy" 47

he owns other people -> slave owner (pg 55)

go back to pg 99,104, 110,120

go to pg 149

give and take in 285 -- saying / talking

Toni Morrison

admits he is ignorant and vain pg 276

"It was becoming a habit - this concentration on things behind him." 35

Lena

Gender Roles

Manhood

pg 213

  • she was the one who started making artificial roses so she could keep quiet
  • compares it to an insane person
  • tried to kill Milkman

"thank you" pg 99

Song of Solomon

can you be a man if you are inwardly turning?

pg 196-- every woman is a doll baby

also family dynamics

man's job is to protect stereotypically

Gender Roles + Employment

Dedication: Daddy

next page:

The fathers may soar

And the children may know their names

what are the men you know really like?

pg 235

  • men expected to protect + provide for fam
  • women expected to look after house + fam
  • black women had least amount of job options
  • white men had most
  • Corinthians was ashamed of being a maid
  • college did not help her get better job
  • will anyone break gender roles or employment norm

- Morrison did not like the mystery of creativity

- Father's death was one of her muses

- African American culture

○ Biblical importance

§ Phrases in regular conversation

○ Language

§ Lyrics from songs were used in conversation

- Song/ music

○ Can reveal history

§ Way of communication

○ Mother was inspiration

- Stories and myths

○ Myth about flight

§ African slaves that flew back to africa from the US

○ Flights will be pivotal in the book

○ Flight has many different connotations

§ Escape

§ Move from earth to more spiritual

What to possibly expect:

- Importance of language

- The act of singing

- How will characters escape?

- What will they sacrifice?

1. Men seek to Dominate women

  • family roles/ responsibilities
  • by men, so even when women have power, it is a power given + allowed by men
  • power does no give C self-esteem, but she acquires it thru her relationship w/ him. thus, the true test of a rel. is what is enables (or disables) the people to do

Guitar

Hagar

focus on ch 6

By Toni Morrison

  • part of 7 days
  • bc his father was killed?
  • pg 224
  • even when little his eyes were gold pg 22
  • "It makes me think of dead people. And white people. And I start to puke" 61
  • talking about sugar

"'Die, Hagar, die.' Either this bitch dies or I do. And she stood there like a puppet strung up by a puppet master who had gone off to some other hobby. O Solomon don't leave me here" 301

milkman = solomon?

Short Stories

Breakdown

Sing/Song/ Lyrics

songs/tales -> Civil Rights

- MLK vs Malcom X

---> Seven Days (Validity)

- Milks Role moving forward

  • history in tales told, and song
  • book ends before civil rights
  • seven days society
  • kills whites in same way a black person was murdered
  • would guitar kill a black person?
  • Malcom X: believed that whites = devil
  • reason behind violence
  • own benefit?
  • help society?
  • what will Milkman do?
  • Recitatif:
  • name means (look up)
  • in SOS there is a constant battle of race
  • how does Twyla and Roberta relationship compare to Milkman and Guitar?

look at religion

  • "O sugarman done fly away/ Sugarman done gone/ Sugarman cut across the sky/ Sugarman gone home...." pg 6
  • pg 9 when Mr. Smith leaps
  • "But then he heard the music. They were singing. All of them. Pilate, Reba, and Reba's daughter, Hagar." 28
  • "there was no music there, and tonight he wanted just a bit of music" 28 -- no music at his house
  • "Singing now, her face would be a mask; all emotion and passion would have left her features and entered her voice" 29
  • "O Sugarman don't leave me here/ Cotton balls to choke me/ O sugarman don't leave me here/ Buckra's arms to yoke me..." 49
  • Clear as day, her father said 'Sing. Sing,' and later he leaned in at the window an said, 'You just can't fly on off and leave a body" 147
  • "Sing. Her name was Sing" pg 243
  • "Milkman's feet were singing...he dared not spread his toes, lest the singing never stop" 254
  • 264, 299
  • 303 -- full song

307: a "chorus" of family

pg 317, 318

Chapters

Ch 12 - 15

Flight

Ch 12

Ch 13

Escape?--> Death = escape?

children = birds pg 268

  • flashback to Hagar
  • when she tried to kill Milkman
  • Hagar keeps going on "no wonder"
  • "I need everything" - Hagar
  • buys all sorts of new clothes and such but gets ruined in the rain
  • talks about her hair and how Milk doesn't like it
  • She dies -- reason unknown
  • Mercy
  • goes to talk to Ms. Byrd
  • she is distantly related to Milk
  • important to find his people
  • find out Guitar tried to kill Milkman b/c he thought he had the gold
  • get homesick for his family
  • hears a children's song about his family

Suicide?

298

pg 162

only birds and airplanes could fly - pg 9

pg 120

CH 1 - 5

Ch 14

Ch 15

  • Milkman needs the sea/ocean
  • very energetic
  • happy about family
  • talk about names
  • "guitar is a very good Day" ?
  • talks about past w/ Pilate
  • kids keep the past alive
  • Guitar shoots Pilate
  • dies
  • Milk dies?

"Too much tail. All that jewelery weights it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down." (179)

  • back to Milk
  • goes to Susan Byrd's house again
  • she now tells Milk more straight up answers
  • talk about Somolon/Shalimar
  • he could fly
  • tried to fly home w/ jake but dropped him

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 1

"Riding backward made him uneasy. It was like flying blind, and not knowing where he was going - just where he had been - troubled him" 32

  • starts to work for Macon
  • meet the Tommys
  • a lot about Ruth
  • hit scene pg 67
  • 75
  • talk about relationship w/ Ruth and Dr. Foster (her dad)
  • milkman's namesake is talked about
  • "He was already Dead"
  • pg 89
  • visit the lake house area
  • "Negroes don't like water" pg 35
  • Milk meets Pilate for the first time
  • she tells stories of the past
  • fall in love with Hagar basically
  • learns of Macon's past
  • snake is a snake

peacock flew 283

"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 people's nightmares flapped in his face and constrained him" (220)

Chapter 5

Chapter 4

CH 6 - 11

  • find out that Hagar has tried to kill Milkman like 6 times
  • follow mom to cemetery
  • Ruth and Pilate bond
  • Hagar freezes while trying to kill Milkman
  • Ruth and Hagar meet
  • Hear Pilate's background
  • learn about the navel thing
  • having Reba
  • etc
  • contemplate relationship w/ Hagar
  • Pilate killing that guy
  • Winnie Ruth = killer
  • escaped prison multiple times
  • pg 99
  • race stuff pg 103
  • tulip "dream" pg 105
  • Ghosts killing 109

Chapter 6

Chapter 8

Chapter 7

  • church bombing
  • bring guitar in on plan to steal gold
  • see the white peacock
  • ginger smell thing
  • steal the sack
  • money = freedom
  • green sack at Pilates
  • Macon + Pilate's past
  • Circe
  • Macon Sr.
  • ghost?
  • pile of gold
  • learn about the seven days
  • ratio/balance/numbers for race in Guitars opinion
  • milkman's is that murder is wrong and you are what you do

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

  • Hansel and Gretel reference
  • Milkman travels to find the gold
  • wants to live his own life
  • goes to Danville
  • Reverend Cooper knows his father and they talk about his childhood some
  • Talks to the ghost of Circe
  • learn about Macon Jr and Pilate's mom - Sing
  • Jake = Macon Sr's real name
  • travels to find cave w/ bones & gold
  • in Shalimar
  • gets soda and hears guitars message for him
  • gets in a fight
  • children = birds
  • goes on a hunt
  • for a bobcat
  • the deserve thing 276
  • guitar attacks milkman
  • has revelations
  • first time he gives and takes pg 285
  • Corinthians is a maid for Michael-Mary Graham
  • family doesn't know
  • C + L expected to marry rich respectable black men
  • Henry Porter courts C
  • C is ashamed of him and her job
  • almost break up but get together
  • find out M and G got arrested for stealing
  • sack had human bones in it
  • find out who all of the 7 Days members are
  • has a sobering conversation with Lena
  • C had to stop dating + working b/c of Milk
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