... . He ends the letter with "I am signing this letter with love, of course, but more than that, with gratitude" (99) and this sends Hagar "spinning into a bright blue place where the air was thin and it was silent all the time...where everything was frozen except for an occasional burst of fire inside her chest" (99). Milkman's language suggests an ... , one can see how the rejection of Hagar's love and her abandonment by the one she loves inevitably causes her demise and love's transformation. Hagar's devotion to Milkman transforms her into a self-destructive character and detaches her fro...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Family, whether realized or not, is permanent. Generations come and different traits are passed on, yet as different members of families marry into others, their own respective family unit remains. They can never break that thread of relationship. They are completely and irrevocably tied by blood ... His struggles continue into adolescence, when he finds his father intimidating and unworthy of his respect. He obeys his father when need calls for it, but by the time he is fourteen, the only similarity he finds that he shares with his father is "his love of good shoes and fine thin socks. ...

• Word Count: 769
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate