Talk About The Significance Of Soil In Both Texts And What These Show About Milkman's And Irene's Attitude To American Capitalism.

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A 1977 novel by American author Toni Morrison. It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American man living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood.

1. Talk About The Significance Of Soil In Both Texts And What These Show About Milkman's And Irene's Attitude To American Capitalism.

Irene Believes That 'she Was American. She Grew From This Soil - And She Would Not Be Uprooted'. Irene's Maiden Name - Westover - Evokes Her American Character. Milkman's Interaction With The Soil Seems More Poignant. When He Starts To Unearth His Past In The South - His Legs Become 'tree Trunks - A Part Of His Body That Extended Down Down Down Into The Rock And The Soil ... And He Did Not Limp'. This Shows That He Is Beginning To Shake Off His Capitalist Bonds - Because He Is Becoming At One With The Rural Southern Soil - Not The Urban 'tower's That Loom Over Irene.
Pilate Says To Milkman - 'you Think Dark Is Just One Color - But It Ain't. There's Five Or Six Different Kinds Of Black ... And It Don't Stay Still'. This Shows The Fluidity Of Race And Self In The Novel. For Example - Macon Dead Represents A 'different Kind' Of Black Character In The Way That He Ascribes To Capitalist Ideals. He Tells Milkman That The Only Way He Can Own Himself Is If He Can 'own Things'.
Missy Dehn Kubitschek States That 'once Hagar Internalizes A Standard Of Beauty That Defines Her As Ugly - Even Pilate Can't Keep Her Alive'. Similarly - Once Clare Kendry Is Discovered As Having Internalised And Simultaneously Externalised The Same White Standard Of Beauty That Would Not Have Been Available To Her Had She Not Passed - She Too Cannot Be Kept Alive. Clare - Once A 'vital Glowing Thing - Like A Flame Of Red And Gold' - Could Be 'gone' Just As Quickly As She Had Passed.
'double-consciousness' - Tensions Between The Self.

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