Song of Solomon is the story of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, eldest son of a dysfunctional and very religious family. The novel's plot, which features divine birth, hunts for gold, and ex-slaves who wield magical powers, mirrors roughly the feel and plotting of the Old Testament. Incest and other Biblical themes predominate as Milkman and his sometimes friend Guitar pursue a quest for gold that takes them across America and through a gauntlet of challenges both spiritual and physical.
Toni Morrison employs some historical events and personnel thoughts into her novel Song of Solomon While there was fights for racial equality during Toni Morrisons life where she might have experienced some of it there is some fights for equality seen by Guitar He himself becomes very into some aspects of the civil rights movement specifically in the Seven Days Milkman also dreams of finding out his past and actually leads us into his past Milkman in a way also rebels against his father by hitt