Hospital Tommy promises Guitar and Milkman “There's something you'll get: a broken heart... And madness. A lot of madness. You can count on it” (61). Although Milkman tries to avoid heartbreak and madness, Guitar and Hagar become the embodiment of madness and heartbreak respectively, leading each of them to double the suffering by doubling the suffering in their worlds, though each of them believes that their actions are based on love. .Guitar is the personification of madness in the text due to his involvement with the Seven Days, an organization that is inherently foolish and doubles the suffering by doubling the deaths. Throughout the text, Morrison suggests that repeating the past is madness and that the characters who overcome their own stupidity are the ones who are able to reconcile with their past. Milkman's journey in the second part of the text consists of knowing and coming to terms with his past. The Seven Days embody madness because they intentionally repeat the past: “'When a Negro child, a Negro woman, or a Negro man is killed by white people and their law and their courts do nothing about it, this society selects a victim similar to random level, and if they can they execute him in a similar way.”(154). This mimicry and attempt to replicate the past shows the extreme folly of the organization and its inability to accept the past. The guitar's rationalization of their actions is also logically flawed. He states that they are maintaining the same ratio of blacks to whites: "'The land is soaked in the blood of blacks... if this continues there will be none of us left and there will be no land for those who are left. So the numbers must 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 only on love for her race. She says, “What I'm doing is not to hate white people. It's about loving you.'” (159). of Milkman because he loves him. He tries to kill him, “kill for love, die for love” (306). Both Guitar and Hagar, the personifications of madness and greed, kill for their love, but Milkman, who at the end of text has figured out how to overcome greed and madness, he sacrifices himself for love. On the last page of the book, Milkman offers Guitar his life: “'do you want my life?' Milkman wasn't shouting now. "Do you need it?" Here." (337). Works Cited Morrison, Toni. Song of Songs. New York: Random House, 2004. Print.Homer, The Odyssey, United States of America, Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1961