History Literature / SongOfSolomon

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Guitar, upon thinking about what happened to his father as a young teenager, feels the need for some weed.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Guitar claims that he and the other members of the Seven Days are killing white people because they love black people. Guitar tells Milkman that he's doing it for Milkman and for his people.]]

* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler: When Hagar sees Milkman with another women, she snaps and sets on killing him.]]

The story follows Macon Dead III starting from the very day he was born, which was also the day Robert Smith committed suicide at the very hospital where Macon III was born. Macon is more commonly known as Milkman due to an embarrassing incident witnessed by a neighbor when he was about five. Milkman has a mother who loves to the point where it almost seems excessive, a father who is ashamed of him, and two elder sisters. His friend Guitar introduces a twelve-year-old Milkman to his strange aunt, Pilate Dead, and his cousin Reba and her daughter Hagar, who he immediately falls in love with.

The story follows Macon Dead III starting from the very day he was born, which was also the day Robert Smith committed suicide at the very hospital where Macon III was born. Macon is more commonly known as Milkman due to an embarrassing incident witnessed by a neighbor when he was about five. Milkman has a mother who loves to the point where it almost seems excessive, a father who is ashamed of him, and two elder sisters. He also has an aunt who hasn't been a part of his life since he was too young to even remember her. His friend Guitar introduces a twelve-year-old Milkman to his strange aunt and his cousin Reba and her daughter Hagar, who he immediately falls in love with.

The title has nothing to do with a book from Literature/TheBible that is also called "The Song of Songs".

* {{Yandere}}: [[Spoiler: Hagar. She's so in love with Milkman that, after their relationship has ended, she constantly goes after him to kill him when she starts seeing him with other women. Milkman's grandmother was also described as having an obsessive love for her husband.]]

''Song of Solomon'' is a 1977 novel written by ToniMorrison. In the story, the main character called Milkman Dead deals with his family (which includes his money-hungry father, his love-deprived mother, his two sisters whose only occupation is making velvet roses, his aunt, cousin, and second cousin) in a racially-tense period in Detroit, whose only friend is named Guitar Bains. Along the way, as Milkman tries to find out about a hidden stash of gold that his father claims his aunt has taken, he discovers in his travels a town called Shalimar whose citizens have a common ancestor that is part of a children's game song, and who also may be an ancestor of Milkman's own family.

* SpurnedIntoSuicide: Implied to have happened to Hagar when she realizes that Milkman Dead was no longer interested in her and her latest attempt to beautify herself has tragic results.

* {{Yandere}}: Hagar. She's so in love with Milkman that, after their relationship has ended, she constantly goes after him to kill him when she starts seeing him with other women.

!!This story provides examples of:
* AuthorFilibuster: It seemed like the plot was a decent story about 2 estranged friends and looking for treasure, but it was kind of hard to tell under all the preaching and metaphors.

* EmbarrassingNickname: Milkman Dead, the nickname of the third Macon Dead, is called this his entire life after a neighbor caught his mother breastfeeding him long after he was too old to be breastfed.

* OralFixationFixation: The character Pilate is described as always chewing something: orange seeds, pine needles, a rubber band.

* ISeeDeadPeople: Pilate has constant communication with the ghost of her dead father.

* EmbarrassingNickname: Milkman Dead, the nickname of the third Macon Dead, which was given to him when his mother was caught breastfeeding him long after he was old enough to eat.

''Song of Solomon'' is a 1977 novel written by Toni Morrison. In the story, the main character called Milkman Dead deals with his family (which includes his money-hungry father, his love-deprived mother, his two sisters whose only occupation is making velvet roses, his aunt, cousin, and second cousin) in a racially-tense period in Detroit, whose only friend is named Guitar Bains. Along the way, as Milkman tries to find out about a hidden stash of gold that his father claims his aunt has taken, he discovers in his travels a town called Shalimar whose citizens have a common ancestor that is part of a children's game song, and who also may be an ancestor of Milkman's own family.

The title has nothing to do with a book from Literature/TheBible that is also called The Song Of Songs.

* BellyButtonless: Pilate Dead, the sister of the second Macon Dead, is said to be born without a belly button.

The title has nothing to do with a book from Literature/TheBible that is also called The Song Of Songs.