Everlasting Journey

Dive deep into your life. Your motivations, short term and long term goals, relationships, etc all constitute your bigger identity. So summed up, your life is just a journey to find who you truly are. Finding this identify isn't a race to see who find it first but an exploration that never ceases. 

In the Song of Solomon, in addition to Milkman's journey of learning about his family, Milkman goes through a journey of stealing a bag of "wealth", having a fling with Hagar, and growing up. The latter is , however, the most significant. It's seen that Milkman not only has physical changes but also mental ones. His left leg becomes to "look just as long as the other", enabling him to have a balance between both legs. This balance symblizes Milkman moving on from his childish perspective to his wiser one. His youth and adulthood "meet each other on a...equal standing"(39) just like the boiled egg. 

Through learning the unique stories about his parents, Milkman is able to eventually peice together his identity. He learns to accept the imperfections of his family, again causing him to think like an adult. He realizes and reflects upon all the trouble he has casued Pilate and how she would have never done the same. However, all of this change is because of his journey for gold, a materaliastic good. Even though he states he doesnt even need the gold, he still chases it with Guitar. This significant event triggers a reaction of change which will hopefully be furthered explored upon in part two of the book.