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Minor characters that aid in the development of the Dead family and more prominent characters often have "regular" names. For example, Henry Porter's name does not have a biblical reference, and is not made important.

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Milkman explains the origin of his name.

"Not cause I do play. Because I wanted to. When I was real little. So they tell me...It was one of those things where you guess how many beans in the big glass jar and you win a guitar. I cried for it, they said. And always asked about it..."

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Although the origin of his name on the surface level may seem trivial, originating from his desire at a young age to own a guitar, Bains desire for something out of reach (freedom of the black race) carries him to join the 7 days. A race realist, Guitar is very much an extreme caricature of Malcom X and his earlier views on racism.

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Macon explains to Milkman the origin of his name and how it derived from a mistake.

“Papa said Macon. Then he asked him who his father was. Papa said Macon. Then he asked him who his father was. Papa said, ‘he’s dead.’...Well, the Yankee wrote it all down, but in the wrong spaces…”

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Like Milkman, Macon Dead I shares the same distaste of his name and compensates with materialistic pleasures, although he is never truly happy. However, Macon had allowed his distaste of the origin of his name to develop him as a person, rather than seek or create a meaning from it.

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She bails Milkman and Guitar from the police even though they stole her bones, deciding to forgive although she could have easily punished them.

“Furthermore, she had looked at Milkman and Guitar and Macon like she didn’t know who exactly they were. In fact, when asked if she knew them, she pointedly said, ‘Not this man, here,’...”

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Milkman became ectatic from the knowledge that his family’s history was more than just inflicting misery.

“Yeah. That tribe. That flyin motherfuckin tribe. Oh, man! He didn’t need no airplane. He just took off; got fed up. All the way up! No more cotton! No more bales! No more orders! No more shit! He flew, baby. Lifted his beautiful black ass up in the sky and flew on home. Can you dig it? Jesus God, that must have been something to see. And you know what else? He tried to take his baby boy with him. My grandfather. Wow! Woooee! Guitar! You hear that? Guitar, my great-granddaddy could flyyyyyy and the whole damn town is named after him. Tell him, Sweet. Tell him my great- granddaddy could fly.”.

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The name belonging to the man who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus in the bible. Pilate had taken her name and sealed it in a box, placed through her ear. In a literal sense, she had sealed the meaning of her name away (by locking it away in a box, rejecting its nature yet acknowledging it as a vital part of her (by wearing it).

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Born Macon Dead III, Milkman is imprisoned by his name. He struggles with his own sense of identity as he grows self aware of his life beginning to mirror that of his father’s (taking on the family business, living in the same town, etc…).

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Names provide more than a practical function. Names serve to shape the journey of each character and their discovery of identity.