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102.04 Khaled Alzubi F11 English 102 Spring 2017 - Questions for Written Constructed Response - Chapters 1-10 Instructions: Provide complete responses to the following questions from Song of Solomon (one or two sentence responses will not earn you much credit). Assignments must be typed, double spaced, size 12 font, font style Times New Roman, and printed on one side of the paper. Attach this sheet as your cover page when you submit your hard copy in class on February 27. Submit the assignment as a Word document to the link on Blackboard Discussion Board by midnight February 27, 2017. Question number one is worth 16 points. Questions two to eight are worth twelve points each. Hard Copy Due in Class: Monday February 27, 2017. Submit Word document to Blackboard by midnight. 1 1. Explain the meaning of these symbols that appear in Morrison's Song of Solomon: a. The watermark on Ruth Dead's dining room table b. The Dead's Sunday drives and Macon's Packard c. Macon's keys d. Guitar being unable to eat sweets e. The white ghost bull that killed Freddie the janitor's mother f. The white peacock g. The dying bush in front of the Dead's house 2. Describe the circumstances that led to Milkman hitting his father, Macon. What emotional contradiction does he experience afterward? 3. Describe the situation that Macon shares with Milkman that occurs with Ruth and her father (the doctor) immediately after his death. Later, when Ruth explains the situation to Milkman, she tells her own version of the incident. She says, “I am not a strange woman. I am a small one” Morrison 124). What does she mean by this? Why did she say she started visiting her father's grave? 4. Describe the similarities and differences between Ruth and Pilate. 5. Guitar belongs to a group called the Seven Days. According to him, what does the organization do and what were the reasons they engaged in such activity? Who else belongs to the Seven Days? What happens with those men as a result of their membership? 6. Explain this quote describing Milkman's feelings. “Deep down in that pocket where his heart hid, he felt used. Somehow, everybody was using him for something or something. Working out some scheme of their own on him, making him the subject of their dreams of wealth, or love or martyrdom. Everything they did seemed to be about him, yet nothing he wanted was part of it (Morrison 165). How does this quote speak to his search for identity? 7. Explain this metaphor about Milkman's feelings about his life. “He's always believed his childhood was sterile, but the knowledge Macon and Ruth had given him wrapped his memory of it in septic sheets, heavy with the odor of illness, misery, and unforgiving hearts” (Morrison 180). (Over for more questions.)
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Morrison’s Song of Solomon
1. Explain the meaning of these symbols that appear in Morrison’s Song of Solomon:
(a) The watermark on Ruth Dead’s dining room table
Given the symbolic importance of the dining room table as a centre of the nuclear family, the
permanent white scar is a reflection of how the family is dysfunctional. But as it would later turn
out, severally tried a Mr Clean Magic Eraser to the table in the efforts of making the watermark
disappear with two hearts, as she at the same time was in love with the watermark given it
would remind and connect her to her father.
(b) The Dead’s Sunday drives and Macon’s Packard
That was a symbol of the family’s entrapment in materialism as they have the opportunity to
show off their opulence and posterity, thus a symbol of success as evident with Macon’s
satisfaction of the same. But again, the drives also represent a form of confinement given that the
green Packard did not provide joy for its owners as was expected.
(c) Macon’s keys
The keys are a status symbol, that is, the symbol of wealth and opulence in the family
thereby opening them to what they needed.

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(d) Guitar being unable to eat sweets
Since his father’s death in a sawmill, Guitar has never eaten the sweets in a symbolic manner
to show that the once a father dies, there are certain things that will be missed or there will be
no happiness. That is probably why the white sawmill owner brought the candies for the
bereaved family a...


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