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You need to focus on all topics of the book to better understand the true meaning of the book

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The Function of Names

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The Issue of Race

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Song of Solomon and the symbol of flight

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Magic and its effects in song of solomon

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The use of names is very apparent to be important to the novel from the get go when we read about Doctors Street and how it celebrates the life of the first black wealthy black man to live in there neighborhood. The government notices the power of names and changes the name to mains street as having the street being named doctors street would give the black community a lot of pride having a street named after a black man, so now they call it not doctors street

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I could talk about how whites are racist to blacks but i want to talk about how blacks are racist to each other an example of this is how Macon Dead doesn't want to live with the poorer black so he lives in a mostly white community in Honore and he also looks down at blacks also Hagar mentions how she hates her hair and her skin color because it show her to be a black woman

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“The fathers may soar / And the children may know their names” this quote is found in the epigraph this quote  shows how flight is a means for escape and the other part of the quote talks about the children that are left behind and only know there names and not what their fathers are really like.

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The meaning of biblical references in song of solomon

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It's up to the reader to decide what topic has the most meaning to them

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“The bereaved sing the song of the loss, this ballad of the flight into oblivion of Solomon, who leaped from a high outcropping rock to return to his native Africa, leaving a grief- stricken wife and 21 children"
This quote talks about how Solomon left but made it magical by changing the way he got there instead

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One major biblical reference is made between Reba and Rebakah Rebakah is a loving mother of both of her sons but favors her son Jacob and does everything she can possibly do for him even if it ruins her relationship with her husband and reba from the book sells her diamonds to buy hadar clothes so she and Rebakah both share a similar motherly love trait

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Macon is ruthless in collecting rent from his tenants, and Father is equally stubborn in refusing to allow Milkman the child into his pool hall, simply because he hates Macon.

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The lack of Mercy and Forgiveness in Song of solomon