Hospital Tommy promises Guitar and Milkman "There's something you'll have - a broken heart... And madness." Lots of madness. You can count on it” (61). Although Milkman attempts to avoid heartbreak and madness, Guitar and Hagar each become the embodiment of madness and a broken heart, respectively, leading them to double down on the suffering in their world, although they believe each that their actions are based on love. .Guitar is the personification of madness in the text due to his involvement in the Seven Days, an organization that is inherently stupid and which doubles the suffering by double the deaths. Throughout the text, Morrison suggests that repeating the past is madness and that characters who overcome their own madness are those who can come to terms with their past. Milkman's journey in the second part of the text is about discovering and coming to terms with his past. The Seven Days are madness incarnate because they deliberately repeat the past: "When a black child, a black woman or a black man is killed by white people and nothing is done about it by their laws and courts , this society selects a similar victim in turn. randomly, and they perform it the same way if they can. »(154). This mimicry and this attempt to replicate the past shows the extreme madness of the organization and its inability to accept the past. Guitar's rationalization of their actions is also logically flawed. He claims that they maintain the same ratio of blacks to whites: "The earth is soaked with the blood of blacks...if this continues, there will be none of us left and there will be no one left . land for those who remain. The figures must therefore remain static. »(158). Guitar believes that if the murder of black people continues... middle of paper ......ar insists that his conduct as a member of the Seven Days is based solely on love of his race. He says, “What I do is not about hating white people. It's about loving ourselves. About loving you. My whole life is love” (159). Likewise, Hagar becomes so hungry for Milkman's attention because she loves him. She tries to kill him, “kill for love, die for love” (306). Guitar and Hagar, the personifications of madness and greed, kill for their love, but Milkman, who by the end of the text has figured out how to overcome greed and madness, sacrifices himself for love. On the very last page of the book, Milkman offers Guitar his life: "'you want my life?' Milkman wasn't shouting anymore. 'Do you need it? Here.' » (337). Works Cited Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York: Random House, 2004. Print.Homer, The Odyssey, United States of America, Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1961