For instance, if one has lost a love to something other than death, he may simply discuss it with his friends; if someone is troubled by family

memories, that person may receive counselling or other forms of psychological therapy; and if one is dissatisfied with his life, then he may spend

money on making improvements or a vacation. The story Song of Solomon describes characters with these travails, but they offer strange

solutions-a variety of deaths. All descendants of a man, Solomon, with a famous legend of flying away from his wife and twenty-one children,

these characters do not meet death wit h anger or fright, but with acceptance and peace. The characters seemed more et peace in their times of

death than in some points of their lives. The novel Song of Solomon shows how the burdens of three characters, Hagar, Pilate, and Milkman,

Hagar, the first main character to die with her burdens, is a character whose life revolved around her emotions and the positive, happy side of

life. A vain and spoiled person from her birth, Hagar never knew the p

Pilate, Hagar's grandmother, was the second main character to die; though considered one of the toughest and emotionally strong characters,

As he continued to grow and become distraught with his mother's strange family relationships and experience one himself with his cousin Hagar,

home seclusion only helped Hagar to think of how to improve her image, spending money to her external ad vantage, but when she realized her

meeting death with complete peace ; her death was a tranquil, not violent, end to life, but also a new beginning to the future, happy with her

valuable gold supposedly still in the cave where Macon and Pilate stayed. On his travels, especially in Shalimar, Milkman finally felt free and

"boats, cars, airplanes, and the command of a large crew." (pg. 179) This controlled lifestyle only brought Milkman more dissatisfaction with his

travelled to Shalimar, Solomon's hometown, Pilate was the accidental victim of a homicide, and she died with a last wish for Milkman,

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