Milkman Sunday Man Analysis

Naming is a form of identity in which we become our own person. In doing so, we let the world know different aspects of our personality and who we excel to be. No person has the same opinions and decisions of how life works out. Milkman, Sunday Man, and Not Doctor Street are symbolizing how they want to stand out. Macon Dead’s mother was caught breastfeeding him at an older age, forming him to become Milkman. Throughout the novel, his behavior and sense of ownership has converted. Working with his father changed to way he presented himself. When he came to his sense of wanting to go his own way, he came across the fact that he needed more money to start off. When confronting Macon Jr. He admitted that he needs him there. Milkman happened to mention Pilate’s green bag is the process of proposing his idea. His father agreed to let him go if he ransacked Pilate’s house in search of the bag. He was so relentless that he would steal from his own aunt instead of finding another way on his terms. “‘I want to plan it so neither one happens. How come that is too much to ask? To plan’‘It don’t look like planning. Looks like …show more content…
There was only one colored doctor that worked in that town. African Americans were not allowed to be admitted to hospitals ran by whites, making him their own option. He took care of his society and was given his own street name. It was no longer known as Mains Avenue, instead blacks referred to it as being Doctor Street. When the city legislators found out the blacks called it that, they put up notices referring to what the street name is. These warnings made the society act on a level of defiance. “They called it Not Doctor Street, and were inclined to call the charity hospital at its northern end No Mercy Hospital” (Morrison 4). They acknowledged what the legislators wanted, but also, putting their own touch to it. Naming it was a sense of ownership by the black community against the