Chapter 15
The last and final chapter of S.O.S brings the character focus back to Milkman. He just got back to shalimar upon finally hearing the story of his family. He is delighted beyond measure and goes swimming in the local quarry with Sweet. Milkman finally decides to return to his real home to share the news with his family. As he is riding home he reflects on the names of all of the people that he has met and thier great importance. He is exeedingly delighted about all of his discoveries, but despite this he still is somewhat fearful cause he knows that Guitar is still out to get him. He decides to visit Pilate first and who knocks him over the head with a wine bottle upon entering her house. When he wakes up he realizes the Hagar must have died and started wondering what Pilate was going to do to him. He knew that Pilates way of punishing someone who kills someone is to make th eperson live with it. He has an epiphany that the body she is carrying in the green sack is indeed not the white guys but actually her fathers and that she needs to bury him on Solomons leap. she is completly surprisec by this. She gives Milkman a box of Hagars hair to carry with him. When Milkman arrives home he finds that Lena still is holding a grudge against him but is being "civil". It is found out that First corinthians is now living with Porter and that nothing has changed between Macon and Ruth. Macon decides that he will probably make a trip back to his home town and seems happy that his father is finally going to get buried. Milkman goes back to shalimar with Pilate, who blends in like "a stick of butter in a churn". together they bury Jakes bones and Hagars hair. Pilate rips out her earing and places it in the grave. guitar shows up somewhere and shoots her. Before she dies she expresses how she wishes she knew more people cause she would have loved them all. Milkman sings her the song about sugarman but replace the word sugar man for sugar girl. He stands up and starts yelling for guitar then jumps of the cliff towards him because he knows that "If you surrendered to the air you could ride it"

Theme-
Flight- flight in this book symbolizes freedom and peace but to aquire these things you must put all of the petty and selfish things in you life aside. In milkmans case he was finally able to fly when he was able to come to a realization about himself through his ancestory.
Names- this book gives a message about the importance of names and how they can define a persons character.

Quotes-
"without ever leaving the ground she could fly" pg. 340

"If you surrendured to the air you could ride it." Pg. 341
I love this quote. It made me realize that the flying in this book was not necasarrily physical but more spirtitual and that you can not really live until you surrender your self to life.

Character Analysis-
Milkman-
throughout the book milkman has struggled with meany things and it is in this chapterthat he finally was able to turn his life around. He was killed by guitar.

Guitar- Killed Pilate and Milkman.

Pilate- In this chapter Pilate too fianally finds out the truth about her family and is able to bury her father. It is amde known that she wishes she knew more people because she would have loved them all.