Essay on the American Dream Revised in Song of Solomon -- Song Solomon

The American Dream Revised in poetry of Solomon America was founded on the belief that all men ar created refer. However, a question must be posed which asks who constitutes men and what is equal? Africans were taken from their country and enslaved in America. They had to fight to retain dignity and clemency in circumstances that were deplorable. Even slaves who were well taken care of were not able to realize the dream of being free again. In her work, strain of Solomon, Toni Morrison relates a story of the dream of Milkman. Although he is not a slave, Milkman is enslaved by the fact that as a child, he was forced to distinguishicipate in a shameful act that he wanted no part of. Even his nickname was derived from this horrific act When he came into the little live she unbuttoned her blouse and smiled. He was too young to be dazzled by her nipples, but he was old enough to be bored by the flat taste of mothers milk, so he came reluctantly, as to a chore, and put as he had at least once each twenty-four hours of his life in his mothers arms, and tried to pull the thin, faintly sweet moderate from her flesh without hurting her with his teeth. (13) This act embarrassed Ruth and Macon junior because he was never able to shake the nickname and it did not rectify either ones relationship with his father. Milkman could not control the whims of his mother though he suspected the act was wrong. Macon did not respect his sons voice as seen when Milkman strikes his father for striking his mother. Milkman does not want to hear Macons explanations for his behavior and is revolt that Macon insists on describing the indiscriminant nature of Ruths attachment to her father as the save for Milkmans fathers treatment... ...m is not an open invitation to Africans like it is to other immigrant groups. They are not willful participants in American society therefore, they must settle for less than others support to. They must fight twice as hard to have one- half as much as others. Works Cited De Arman, Charles. Milkman as the Archetypal Hero. Obsidian subdued Literature in Review 6.3 (1980) 56-59. Moraru, Christian. Reading the Onomastic Text The government activity of the Proper Name in Toni Morrisons Song of Solomon. Names A Journal of Onomastics. 44.3 (1996) 189-204. Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York The Penguin Group, 1977. Peterson, Nancy J. Toni Morrison Critical and Theoretical Approaches. Baltimore Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. Storhoff, Gary. Anaconda Love Parental Enmeshment in Toni Morrisons Song of Solomon. elan 31.2 (1997) 290-309.