Heritage + Identity
The meaning of gold in Milkman's eyes
What is escaping the confines of a priviledged life?
The significance of the Fairy Tales
What is the illusory world in which Milkman still lives in?
The meaning of Milkman's grandmothers name, Sing.
What is remembering and connecting back to his heritage through the act of singing to tell his story?
Milkman's sense of flight on the plane.
What is freedom away from real life?
Emptiness of gold in the cave regarding Milkman.
What is Milkman's inheritance is not the gold? Somtimes nothing is everything.
The destruction of the Butler's Mansion
What is the collapse of sharecropping orders and the loss of material goods?
The significance of the conversation between Milkman and Guitar.
What is the conversation highlights the racism faced by black people in a white-dominated society.
Pilate's ability to fly without leaving the ground.
What is obtaining true freedom without the want of material wealth?
The meaning of the shedding of materials on Milkman's journey to see Circe.
What is Milkman is being stripped of the trappings of his old identity?
The meaning of Milkman's encounter with Circe that relates to his quest.
What is his quest represents a mythic world that blends into reality?
"What good is a man's life if he can't even choose what to die for?"
What is Guitar shedding light on why he joined the Seven Days?
The image of Circe as a possible ghost relates to Milkman in this way.
What is whether Milkman's recovered past is historically accurate or a part of an old folk's tale?