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Mr. Smith
Mr. Smith jumps off Mercy hospital -
Milkman is born
"The next day a colored baby was born inside Mercy for the first time" -
Milkman can't fly
milkman "discovered at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier- that only birds and airplanes could fly" -
Milkman is renamed
Milkman gets his nickname when Freddie discovers his mother nursing him when he is four -
Guitar
"He went to school and at twelve met the boy who could not only liberate him, but take him to the women who had as much to do with his future as she did his past" -
Pilate, Hagar
"who's your little freind?" "this here's Milkman"
"But Milkman had no need to see her face; he had already fallen in love with her behind." -
Milkman Hits Macon
Milkman "knocked him into the radiator." -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till is killed by the bryant brothers, who are found inocent before admiting to the tourture and killing of Emmet Till -
Milkman Breaks Up
Milkman "left the drug store having made up his mind to break it off" -
The Heist
Milkman and Guitar steal Pilate's inheritance because Macon thinks it is gold from a childhood argument. -
Lena
Lena efectivly kicks milkman out, giving him freedom to fly -
Milkman goes south
Milkman leaves and goes south in search of the gold. this is the start of Milkman's journy to find his home -
Shalimar
"Right here?This is Shalimar?" -
Hagar Dies
"Hush. Hush. Hush, girl, hush." -
Hunting
Milkman goes hunting, listens to the land, foils Guitars attemt to kill him "your day has come"
Bobcat skining, Milkman becoming in tune with primal insticts. -
Song of Solomon
Milkman "does his best to put it all together" after hearing the Song of Solomon.
Milkman goes back and Susan Byrd tells him that his great grandfather could fly. -
Freedom
Milkman "Surendered to the air" after Guitar shoots Pilate. Milkman jumps off Solomons leap
