Essay on African-American American Nightmare in Song of Solomon

American hallucination or African-American American nightmare The Declaration of Independence was written so Americans could achieve this woolgather, but the African slave was never intended to be a part of this American fancy. To the African-American, there were and still are bity restrictions that go along with the American Dream. In Toni Morrisons novel, Song of Solomon, Macon Dead craved for the American Dream. He was in denial and believed that he could be just as thriving as the white man. Macon desired to cause every function, including people. Macon tells Milkman the following(a) Let me tell you right now the one important thing youll ever need to know Own things. And let things you own own things. Then youll own yourself and other people too (Morrison 55). Macon moldiness have suffered from a memory loss because when his father acquired a household and land, he was blown five feet in the air. Was striving for the American Dream genuinely worth dying for? Stri ving for the American Dream ruin Macons relationship with his family and his community. This is a perfect example of The Dream becoming the American Dream gone wrong or the American Nightmare. Macon wooly-minded his family while gaining property and things. Milkmans dream, on the other hand, was to become a man on his own terms not on his fathers terms. He obtains his dream by finding his heritage and learning about his ancestors. Unfortunately, obtaining his dream ends in the ultimate dream, which is death. Morrisons use of magic realism keeps the reader guessing what is real and what is imaginary. Milkman often had dreams or nightmares as a child He had had dreams as a child, dreams every child had of the w... ...ll African-Americans ever obtain the American Dream? They still hope for it or it would not be a happen theme in black literature. By making white Americans aware(p) of black history and black plight, maybe one day African-Americans impart be considered true equ als in white society. Works Cited and Consulted Hughes, Langston. Dream Deferred. Literature, nurture Fiction, Poetry, Drama & the Essay. fourth Edition, Published by McGraw Hill, 1998. Jefferson, Thomas. The Declaration of Independence. 1776. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 4th ed. v.1,ed. Nina Baym et al (NY Norton, 1994), 729. King, Jr., Martin Luther. I Have a Dream. A Testament of commit The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King Jr., Ed. J. M. Washington. Harper & Row, 1986. 217, 219. Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York The Penguin Group, 1977.