Students are to answer the following questions from Song of Solomon and leave with substitute:
Chapter 3
1. What effect have the circumstances of
Guitar’s father’s death had on Guitar’s attitude toward
life?
2. In 1945, at age fourteen, Milkman feels
physically inadequate: one leg is shorter; he has no
mustache. Of what
deeper lack of ease is this symbolic?
3. “The whole truth” which Macon decides now to
tell Milkman will be modified by Ruth in a later
conversation
with her son. However, Macon’s story has a serious effect on Milkman. Explain
the
son’s
conflicts.
Chapter 4
1. In chapter 3, Guitar had given Milkman the
following advice:
The cards are stacked
against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay
alive and in the game,
makes us do funny things. Things we can’t help. Things that make us hurt one
another. We don’t even know why. But look here, don’t carry it inside and don’t
give it to nobody else. Try to understand it, but if you can’t, just forget it
and keep yourself strong, man. In writing Hagar his goodbye letter, has he
followed Guitar’s advice? Explain.
Chapter 5
1. What does the conversation that begins this
chapter tell the reader about the quality of the
friendship between
Milkman and Guitar?
2. What do the residents of Southside mean by
“graveyard love”? What interest do they take in it?
What judgment do they
make of it?
3. The narrative of Pilate’s power (saving
Milkman’s life) is juxtaposed with the story of her early
life, experience of
love, and sense of alienation and sadness. How does the one narrative relate to
the other?
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