Research on Ownership/Possession/Letting Go

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17              Macon’s keys

 

35              Summer houses for blacks; “They’ll like it if they own it”

51ff           Father protecting their property

55              “own things”

63              Milkman “belonged” to Macon now and “not to Ruth”

92              Pilate’s and Reba’s generosity “was so wholehearted it looked like carelessness”

93-95         Pilate confronts Reba’s man (“belonged” to Pilate)

120            The past as “some burden” that Milkman “didn’t deserve”

142            Pilate picks up a rock from every place she lives

154            Guitar’s seven days logic—keep the numbers the same

163            Money is freedom; you’ll own it all

178-180     Peacock

222-223     Everybody wants the life of a black man

232, 236    The Butlers all dead—“disproves” Guitar’s seven days logic

235            The Dead family farm a symbol of success

250            Watch breaks; hunger in old men’s eyes

271            Milkman stripped of his city identity (down to new clothes and shoes)

276-281     Doesn’t “deserve”; finally belongs

294            Milkman: I’m losing everything

306            Guitar to Hagar: You can’t own a human being

332            Hagar the one Milkman left behind (you can’t fly off)

335-336     Pilate’s death: If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more

337            If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it