“Outside the brush house in the tuna clump, a covey of little birds chittered and flurried with their wings.” (pg 1) a brood or small flock of partridges or similar birds. Sitting on the beach, I looked up and saw a convey of huge birds flapping their wings. “Near the brush fence two roosters bowed and feinted at each other with squared wings and neck feathers ruffed out.” (pg 4) a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack The boxer feinted and fell from the punch of his opponent pretending to be hurt.
“In his mind a new song had come, the Song of Evil, the music of the enemy, of any foe of the family, a savage, secret, dangerous melody, and underneath, the Song of the Family cried plaintively.” (pg 5) Expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful The mother whimpered plaintively as it was the 4th day that she could not find her child. “They came to the place where the brush houses stopped and the city of stone and plaster began, the city of harsh outer walls and inner cool gardens where a little water played and the bougainvillaea crusted the walls with purple and brick-red and white.” (pg 8) any tropical woody nyctaginaceous widely cultivated climbing plant of the genus Bougainvillea, having inconspicuous flowers surrounded by showy red or purple bracts
Surrounded by beautiful bougainvillaea, the resort offers an amazing place to sit back and relax. “They knew his ignorance, his cruelty, his avarice, his appetites, his sins.” (pg 9) insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth. Some very wealthy people have avarice. “And, since early Mass was over and business was slow, they followed the procession, these endless searchers after perfect knowledge of their fellow men, to see what the fat lazy doctor would do about an indigent baby with a scorpion bite.” (pg 9) lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished. Those who have wealth should have an obligation to help the indigent. “For a long time Kino stood in front of the gate with Juana beside him. Slowly he put his suppliant hat on his head. Then, without warning, he struck the gate a crushing blow with his fist.” (pg 12) a person who supplicates(to pray humbly); petitioner. The suppliant women walked into her friend’s house hoping for forgiveness for what she had done.
Song Of Solomon Essay
Throughout the book, Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison, the image of flight is a major symbol. It signifies true life and the living of it, as well as a sense of freedom, of release, and touches the lives of all the main characters in the book, as it is a part of the Deads family history. But the most affected is Milkman, who embarks on a journey of self-discovery, and discovers this true meaning ...
