Every now and again a book comes along that has a soul. This soul can thrive within the characters or the rich content it displays. The “ Song of Solomon” has soul, plain and simple. Toni Morrison knitted a soul into the backbone of this novel with her mastery of imagery. Every sentence and scene has the potential to hold a powerful symbol or meaning needing to be discovered by the reader. Almost all of these …showed first 75 words of 1436 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1436 total…see Toni put much thought into all of her characters. To make such discreet similarties to bible characters takes much skill and time. The bulk of characters and religious imagery used makes religious imagery the most important from in this novel. These ideas can all be discussed but it is all to obvious that much more is known only by Toni Morrison herself. Maybe this is her way of paralleling herself to the all-knowing God.