In Toni Morrison's novel, Song of Solomon, she has a constant message throughout the novel using the element of flight throughout the novel. She puts the flight in the book to describe a sense of freedom towards the African American members in the book. At the beginning of the book, the image of flight has already been introduced to us where we are inside the hospital room awaiting Milkman’s “birth”. With the image of flight, we can jump to the conclusion that flight plays a major role in this novel. During his “birth”, we have his aunt Pilate who out of nowhere starts to sing a song showing her point of view on how she sees the situation happening. She sings about how Mr. Smith flies off the roof of the hospital getting rid of all his problems
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During the scene in the hospital where he was going to “fly off the hospital roof” and noticed by Pilate, “ Mr. Smith had learned earlier-that only birds and airplanes could fly-he lost all interest in himself.”(Morrison 9). With Milkman developing an obsession with “flight” as a way of freeing his issues, he soon realizes that this notion may be a false and that results in him living his life with no goal or prize to seek for. As Milkman continues to grow up, he discovers that flight can indeed happen to be his scapegoat to release all his problems. With him growing up, his need to find out more about flight becomes larger and larger. When he was younger, he would always daydream about the ability to fly when he is in the car with his family, although his mother didn't allow him to sit on either of his parents' lap, he came to a conclusion to kneel on the grey seat and to look out the back window. He could see anything but at the same time not see much too. “It was like flying blind and not knowing where he was going just where he had been-troubled him”(Morrison 32). With this in mind, this shows how Milkman’s sense of flight develops in the novel, bring him closer to his main goal and proving that flight can actually end up being
During the scene in the hospital where he was going to “fly off the hospital roof” and noticed by Pilate, “ Mr. Smith had learned earlier-that only birds and airplanes could fly-he lost all interest in himself.”(Morrison 9). With Milkman developing an obsession with “flight” as a way of freeing his issues, he soon realizes that this notion may be a false and that results in him living his life with no goal or prize to seek for. As Milkman continues to grow up, he discovers that flight can indeed happen to be his scapegoat to release all his problems. With him growing up, his need to find out more about flight becomes larger and larger. When he was younger, he would always daydream about the ability to fly when he is in the car with his family, although his mother didn't allow him to sit on either of his parents' lap, he came to a conclusion to kneel on the grey seat and to look out the back window. He could see anything but at the same time not see much too. “It was like flying blind and not knowing where he was going just where he had been-troubled him”(Morrison 32). With this in mind, this shows how Milkman’s sense of flight develops in the novel, bring him closer to his main goal and proving that flight can actually end up being