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2a2. Choosing to take over the family business, Milkman is chained to the place he wants to leave and forget. As he grows older his aspirations grow weaker. He carries on life never knowing his heritage or fulfilling his dreams. Each day resembles his father more and more the man he so desperately wanted to distance himself from.

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2a1b. Choosing to investigate his roots and understand where he came from he starts his travels in Pennsylvania where hi father and aunt spent some of their childhood after the death of their father. His discoveries lead him to Shalimar Virginia where he begins to unearth his heritage. Now knowing where he came from Milkman is now free to live his life. He meets his true love and spends his life never to return to Michigan.

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2a1a. Choosing to see where the wind may take him, Milkman spends the rest of his life traveling the country and even the world. After years of traveling he finally meets the love life in France where he spends the rest of his life free and alive.

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2a1. After selling his fathers business Milkman has all of the money he needs to explore his dream. He is now left with decision of what he will do first. Should he let loose and see where the wind takes him or investigate his roots. 2a1a. Let loose. 2a1b. Investigate his roots.

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2a. For the next three years milkman continues living the life he so desperately wants to leave. The days drag on and his friendship with Guitar grows more and more distant. During this time Macon Jr. health had taken a turn for the worse and after a year of fighting his illness he could no longer hold on. As the oldest son Milkman inherited his father business. Should Milkman sell what his father worked so hard to have or become the new owner as his father had hoped? 2a1. Sell the business. 2a2. Takeover the business.

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2. After declining his father’s offer, Milkman must find another way to fund with intended travels. With very few options he is left with the choice of working for his father or giving up on his dreams. Which should he choose? 2a. Milkman continues working for his father. 2b. Milkman gives up on his dreams and quits his job.

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1b. Electing to do it himself, Milkman arrives at the small house and after much deliberation, hoists himself through the window hitting his head as he went through. Unable to keep his balance he tumbles onto the wooden floor awaking the three women. Hagar, already livid from Milkman’s rejected love can stand it no longer, she attacks Milkman with a knife, who is still on the ground dazed and confused. Pilate and Reba stand by and watch as Hagar unleashes her rage stabbing and killing Milkman and relieve her pain.