The Song of Solomon: Milkman's Life

By hshockley

  • Milkman is born

    Milkman is bron on the same day when Robert Smith jumped off the building. Milkman was also born in a hospital that typically only treated white patients.

  • Milkman gets his nickname

    Ruth is found by Freddie nursing Milkman and this is how Milkman gets the name Milkman.

  • Milkman pees on Lena

  • Milkman becomes friends with Guitar

    This is the first time Milkman meets Pilate. He meets her after his new friend, Guitar, goes with him. He also meets Hagar whom he kind of falls in love with. Through this experience he discovers that Pilate doesn't have a naval which was a superstition around town orginially.

  • Milkman Meets Pilate, Reba, and Hagar

  • Macon Jr. tells Milkman the memories he has of his father

  • Milkman starts a relationship with Hagar

  • Milkman Hides his height deformity

    Milkman hides his height deformity. He trys to appear different and more sophisticated and it works in masking that one of his legs is shorter than the other.

  • Milkman Hits Macon, defending his mother

  • Milkman Picks out presents

    He doesn't really care what he is giving them. When he is picking out a present for Hagar at the drug store he isn't really sure what to give her. He decides to end the relationship that they had also.

  • Hagar tries to kill Milkman six times after he gives her a thank you note during chistmas

  • Milkman and Guitar see the White peacock before they steal the sack of gold

    The white peacock represents white people in general. Milkman admires the wealth, elegance, and class of white people where as Guitar just wants to kill them because of his membership in the 7 days

  • Milkman and Guitar steal the tarp bag that is supposed to contain Gold

    Instead the bag contains the bones of the man that Macon had killed

  • Milkman and Guitar are arrested

    Pilate and Macon bail them out of Jail.

  • Milkman enters the cave and finds nothing

  • Milkman Departs to go find the Gold

  • Milkman stops in Danville

  • Milkman meets Reverend Cooper

    Reverend Cooper points him in the direction of Shalimar. Milkman meets a lot of people that "knew" Macon jr. and his father Macon.

  • Milkman Meets Circe

    Circe looks over the Butler's place. She desires to see it crumble. She is around 150 years old at this point.

  • The fan belt in the car breaks

    After doing some research he discovered that the town he was looking for was called Shalimar. He stops in it because his fan belt breaks not realizing it is actually Shalimar.

  • Guitar tries to kill Milkman during the hunting trip in Shalimar

    Guitar thinks Milkman sent the gold elsewhere. He believes this because Milkman went to the shipping yard to ask Reverend Cooper a question and helped him while he was there.

  • Milkman Learns the truth

    He learns that his great grandfather was actually Solomon whom the town is closley named after. He also learns that the bones he stole from Pilate were not the bones of the man that Macon jr. had killed but of Macon.

  • Milkman returns home

  • Milkman tells Pilate return to Shalimar

    Milkman returns home. He realizes that Hagar died. When he goes to visit Pilate, she hits and knocks him out. He then tells her everything and they go to Shalimar.

  • Pilate is killed by Guitar

    Guitar kills pilate when they are burying the bones of Macon.

  • Milkman flies away(dies)

    he throws himself in the direction of Guitar into Ryna's gulch.