第1个回答 2013-07-15
This work focuses depicts black male youth Milkman's growth, and his life but also with the Song of Solomon flight has more than one meaning is closely related to his growth is also closely linked with the flight, he truly flight understanding is a sign of their spiritual growth.
32 years ago Milkman has several features in character. First, selfishness, indifference. He never loved anyone, did not help what people had to work, even if it was his mother, sister. He found his mother in a dream that is not at risk to rescue, this is the best portrayal of his selfish indifference. In love, he was obsessed with Hagar, and once Hagar fanatical love him, he felt boring, called the "third beer", neither "drink it always feels almost to tears the first cup, nor is expanded first feel flattered Cup second cup, but the reason to drink it just because you did not drink any harm on the third cup, he met a woman as their own items it finally looked Hagar actually cruel destruction. Milkman second characteristic is the character of life lost impulses and desires, everything in his opinion are boring, boring, and this is a feature of his character before underlying causes. 4 years old, when he found himself incapable of flight, birds and aircraft can fly only when / Since then he has lost all interest on their own, almost as if he does not believe there is anything in the future like. to 29 years old, boring, like a slight infection began, and now his mind already soaked Nothing special is his pursuit, to whom to take any risk, worth sacrificing some of their own convenience. the characteristics of the previous one feature interacts. Milkman third important character feature is cowardice and escape, he was reluctant to take responsibility for anything, indifferent to escape everything in his view, if the ethnic conflict settlement in Michigan, Blacks were oppressed of the period, he can buy a plane ticket to flee his work for his father, get a friend to take care of the guitar, close to Pilate, actually relied on a certain timid people who force leaving own flies very well and he does not love his family, friends, but he can not do without them can provide everything, enjoying everything and treated as natural. His nickname Milkman is his best symbol of dependence. above three characteristics intertwined with each other, until he is 31 years old.
In order to find gold, he embarked on a southbound journey. And the results, this time looking for material wealth has become a journey of a real roots trip. In the process, his spirit to be baptized, and finally truly weaned, came of age. In Milkman personality, mental changes, several factors play an important role, and more importantly, these factors but also with several specific place and time (physical space) propulsion linked them In the transition layer by layer, progressive development, gradually deepened. From space, the baby is getting milk deep south, away from the family will be closer and closer to the root; from emotions, thoughts (mental space), it is the impact of milk baby growing, after a few stage after the baptism, he finally ushered in spiritual life. When he heard the children singing songs about Solomon when he finally epiphany that this is a ballad about his great-grandfather, is to let him know his own songs and Shalimaer - cultural traditions represented by contact, knowing himself with grandparents contact, know grandparents, fathers history and destiny, knowing everything they face and make a choice, are songs to help him achieve a final leap of understanding, to really mature, completely weaned. At this time the songs, on behalf of the African-American black tradition, is the basis for the hero's identity and resources, understanding it means to find their own cultural roots (Samuels 64-9), and finally recognized what a real flight, rather than flee. So, in the end of the novel, Milkman fly Solomon Heights, symbolically expressed the spirit of resurrection of the hero, as well as traditional (ancestral past) close contact.