Pilate In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon

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In the book Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison, a character's name says a lot about the character themselves. Pilate is one of the more interesting name choices throughout this book because her name does not represent her in any literal sense. The most famous reference to this name is Pontius Pilate from the bible, the man who condemned jesus to death. If approached from this direction this significance has no connection to what she is actually like in the book. The real significance of Pilate’s name is not in the name itself but in the way the name was chosen. Her illiterate father pointed at a grouping of letters he thought looked well together and gave the letters to her as a name. Even when her father chose her name the nurse helping with

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