The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things that make us hurt one another. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Romans Song of Solomon is a strange, entrancing book. The story takes a little while to get going, but then it soars. After I had read two or three chapters, someone asked me how I liked it. I said that there were some interesting characters, but not much has happenedβat least not to the characters the story had focused on.
That would change. By the end, we are privy to a family saga like something out of Faulknerβrich, deep, but askew enough to be Southern gothic at its core. No, many times we do not understand why we do the things we do, but like St. Paul in the above quotation, we know that there is something primal that moves us on. The tite comes from the Bible, of course. The biblical Song of Solomon a. It is sexual. Rabbinical tradition said that Jewish men were not allowed to read it until they were thirty.
She gets her name from another book of the Bible whose thirteenth chapter is called the Love Chapter. It seems as if all the characters are looking for love, but they have a hard time finding it or keeping it. Sometimes it is because they are looking in the wrong place, but mostly it is because they really do not know how to love.
Brokenness takes a long time to heal. The question is simply this: Will it ever heal? His father is a wealthy landlord, and Milkman becomes his rent collector.
He is learning the business. Milkman learns from his father that land and property are what are important in life. Macon Dead, Sr. But, as the above quotation notes, the cards were stacked against him.
