1. FACT: Pilate roamed the countryside looking for her "people".
2. Pilate's understanding of love is her freedom.
3. Magic, for the people who have accepted that it exists, creates an understanding of complicated things. Pilate's posthumous connection with her father molds her understanding of love.
4. "She sighed, 'Watch Reba for me.' And then, 'I wish I'd a knowed more people. I would of loved 'em all. If I'd a knowed more, I would a loved more.'" (Morrison 336).
5. Pilate loved everyone who entered her life, no matter what they had done or who they had done it to. By understanding what love is Pilate has freedom, she is able to live without the conatraints of society and be happy.
6. I find Pilate to be the most intriguing character in the book. Her ability to have the freedom that people long for now, is just incredible. Toni Morrison has given the world a way to find the freedom it so craves in one character.
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#5 sounds like a Hallmark card. I think your understanding that love is the freedom, and Pilate is free. I do find it interesting that you can write three sentences in #6 and think that you have explained Pilate.
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