Song Of Solomon To Ride The Air Analysis

In the Song of Solomon we go beyond further, we become able to fly, we leave all the material possessions behind, all the fakeness that we are born with all must be gone. In the article “Song of Solomon: To Ride the Air”, the author Dorothy H. Lee explains how important is for us to learn to fly and how this is related to going forward. Flying means to leave the ground, to go further than forward, even though when this seems to be really difficult and we might not be prepared to “leave the ground”. Dorothy H. Lee states that to learn to fly implies to make a change in our life, but it’s required for us in order to go forward; “He is unprepared to flight. Gradually, Milkman will, in the course of the novel, have to learn the secret - something …show more content…
It brings the deepest knowledge. Liberation and transcendence - flight, literal and figurative follow the discovery of self” (H. Lee). Here, in the “Song of Solomon: To Ride the Air”, we have the best explanation of how Milkman become a men, going back to his father childhood and fixing what his progenitor did not do well, but most important, Macon Dead III realized that the Milkman was not himself; “In order to go forward, he realizes, one must go back - examine the past rather than ignore it. It initiated into the real a real black community, he abandons false pride and atones for his errors in suffering. Releasing egotism, he attains rebirth into new life” (H. Lee). The author Dorothy H. Lee gives us in her work a different interpretation that we were lacking, she uses the words of Toni Morrison to make emphasis on what was not obvious “Toni Morrison seems to tell her readers that Milkman’s flight may be duplicated by all who can abandon the frivolous weights that hold them down and, in so doing, ride the air” (H.