O Sugarman done fly away Sugarman done gone Sugarman cut across the sky Sugarman gone home…(Morrison 11) So unfolds the beginning scene of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon. Nursery rhymes, fables, fairy tales, ghost stories, folktales, and legends are the primary sources fueling Milkman’s self-discovery through the journey of the novel. It is human nature to cling to and use fantastical or fictitious accounts to give their lives significance; for Milkman, the discovery …showed first 75 words of 562 total…

…showed last 75 words of 562 total…Pilate’s ghost stories of Grandfather Jake: Sing was not a command but the name of Pilate’s mother, and the entire reference to leaving a body behind was not about the dead white man, but Solomon leaving Jake behind when he flew away. Using this fictitious piece as inspiration, Milkman takes away an important piece of information, “If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it”(363). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon