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

The American Dream Revised in numbers of Solomon America was founded on the belief that all men are created equal. 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 grace in circumstances that were deplor fitting. correct slaves who were well taken care of were non able to realize the dream of being free again. In her work, Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison relates a story of the dream of Milkman. Although he is not a slave, Milkman is enslaved by the point that as a child, he was forced to participate 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 room she un buttoned her blouse and smiled. He was too young to be dazzled by her nipples, but he was old enough to be bored by the straightaway taste of mothers milk, so he came reluctantly, as to a chore, and lay as he had at least once each day of his liveliness in his mothers arms, and tried to pull the thin, faintly sweet mild from her number without hurting her with his teeth. (13) This act embarrassed Ruth and macon Jr. because he was never able to shake the nickname and it did not improve all ones relationship with his induce. Milkman could not control the whims of his mother though he pretend 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 appalled that Macon insists on describing the indiscriminant nature of Ruths attachment to her father as the excuse for Milkmans fathers treatment... ...m is not an open invitation to Africans like it is to other immigrant groups. They are not voluntary participants in American society therefore, they must settle for less than others have to. They must fight twice as hard to have half as much as others. Works Cited De Arman, Charles. Milkman as the Archetypal Hero. Obsidian Black writings in Review 6.3 (1980) 56-59. Moraru, Christian. Reading the Onomastic Text The politics of the proper(a) Name in Toni Morrisons Song of Solomon. Names A Journal of Onomastics. 44.3 (1996) 189-204. Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. in the buff 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. Style 31.2 (1997) 290-309.