Macon Dead

1. Fact: Macon Dead is Milkman's father and a prominent businessman in the Community.

2. Macon's quest to obtain the wealth of white people has lead him to become a white person in all but the color of his skin.

3. The Motif of African American Amalgamation plays a very large role in the development of Macon's character. Macon, when faced with the conflicts between Whites and Blacks, chooses to emulate white behavior through business but is unable to assimilate.

4. Guitar- "Your father is a very strange Negro. He'll reap the benefits of what we sow, and there's nothing we can do about that/ He behaves like a white man, thinks like a white man. As a matter of fact, I'm glad you brought him up. Maybe you can tell me how, after losing everything his own father worked for to some crackers, after seeing his father shot down by the, how can he keep his knees bent?" Milkman- "My Father doesn't care whether a white man lives or swallows lye. He just wants what they have." (Morrison 223-224).

5. This passage shows how people close to Macon see that his behavior is abnormal for an African-American and that he is a negative power in the community. Macon does not want to cause harm but "only wants what they (White People) have.

6. An interesting aspect of Macon is his interaction with his family in how he actively tries to control or, in the case of Milkman, end their lives but at times shows affection to them.

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Love is anything but simple, yet it is one of the most fundamental human emotions. Literature certainly has dedicated several volumes to this idea of love in its many variations, extremitites and how it certainly can make fools of us all. Perhaps you may think that you've never been in love; perhaps you think that writing about love is an unmanly activity; perhaps you are currently in love; perhaps a loved one has recently died; perhaps you recall an earlier experience with love. Whatever the situation or circumstance arises when you think of love, this is your opportunity to express your heartfelt perspectives on love. Please, let me remind you not to confuse love with sex. Believe it or not, there is a difference between the two.
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Love eh? Love is a very difficult subject for most people to write about inculding me. I can not say that I have ever been in love in the romantic sense of the world but I have "loved". I, like most others, have loved many people, things, and ideas, and many times have misplaced this emotion.

As far as people go my love has been restricted to the members of my own family. I love my parents and extended family in the sense that they are of my own blood and have supported me my whole life but I am not "in love" with them. I've never loved any person outside of my family network in my life and don't really know what it feels like to gain or lose it in that sense. I imagine that it is a terrific feeling but I have yet to experience it.