1. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
... that the community "had seen women pull their dresses over their heads and howl like dogs for lost love" (128). They had said to themselves, "thank God I ain't never had one of them graveyard loves" (128). The author sets up a foreshadow to the result of loving too much. Hagar, like the women described, is blindly devoted to Milkman ... 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...
- Word Count: 1436
- Approx Pages: 6
- Grade Level: Undergraduate