Thus, the presence or absence of love completely transforms the lives of characters within the novel. While family love in emphasized there are also several parallels between characters such as Ruth and Hagar where one is desperate for love and other is overflowing with it. Milkman and Guitar are another example, as Milkman’s love for community grows so does Guitars hate. However all relationships within the novel are effected by love for both good and bad reasons. And relationships between family and the community are the ones that are really stressed in the novel and show the complexities of
