I read Song of Solomon by Tony Morrison. When I first started reading it I had no idea where it was going or what it was even about, but then after I got used to the style of writing I began to see a reoccurring pattern of two major themes. In Song of Solomon Toni Morrison shows a young man trying to find his past while experiencing themes of love intercepted by death and flight.
             Song of Solomon is about a young boy who is given the name Milkman because he is breast fed until the age of 8 or 9. He is obsessed with the thought of flight until he realizes that he cannot fly himself. As he grows up he falls in love with his Aunt's granddaughter Hagar and befriends Guitar, a man who joins a group of African American men who kill a white person for every black person that is killed. When Milkman's life working for his father is not as fulfilling for him he takes a journey down south where he finds his roots and his connections to a slave named Solomon who can fly.
             In the novel we see several acts of love to various characters, however this love does not come without an act of violence leading to death. One such example of this is when we first learn about the group Seven Days where they kill a white person for every black person who is murdered or lynched. We learn about them when Morrison writes, "More important, they believed the crimes they committed were legitimate because they were committed in the heat of passion: anger, jealousy, loss of face, and so on." (P 100) Here we see how too much love can be destructive. Guitar and all of the other members of Seven Days love their face so much that they are willing to kill anyone who takes of member of their race away from them. Another example is when Hagar tried to kill Milkman after he breaks off their affair. One night when Milkman finally is tired of running and just lets her have his way the speaker says, "In her hand was a but
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