![]() But, as with Pilate, these women don’t seem to relate directly to their biblical namesakes - i.e., Hagar doesn’t seem to act like the one in the book of Genesis. With her lives her daughter Reba and Reba’s daughter Hagar. She lives a life on her own, travelling around the country for decades, before ending up in the northern Michigan city along a Great Lake, probably Detroit, where her brother, the second Macon Dead, lives. Pilate Dead, who does not have a bellybutton, keeps her hair cut very short, wears men’s boots and has a ring in her ear that holds a small box containing the piece of the page of the Bible on which her father pointed to her name. Indeed, she could be seen as the antithesis of that bureaucratic power-wielder. She is nothing like the Pontius Pilate of the Bible (at least, I don’t think so), the Roman Governor of Judea who, at the behest of a screaming crowd, sentenced Jesus to crucifixion. Her name, the reader learns early in the novel, was chosen by her illiterate father by putting his finger down at random on a page of the Bible. Morrison is using the Bible for her own purposes.Ĭonsider one of her key characters, Pilate Dead, the aunt of the central figure Macon Dead III, known as Milkman. ![]() ![]() A major thread in Song of Solomon is the Bible, but not the Bible of institutional belief systems. ![]()
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