Comparing Song of Solomon with Star Wars and The Hero's Journey
During our class discussion of the book The Song of Solomon, Taehan and I realized that the novel was weirdly similar to Star Wars: A New Hope. Both are stories that describes a "hero" going on an adventure and on the way discovers their past (also the last name Skywalker and Milkman's ancestors being able to fly is a funny similarity). Our theory was further enhanced once our class began talking about how Milkman's experience in act 2 follows the hero's journey. After finishing the book, I decided to look back and compare the differences and similarities of The Song of Solomon (SOS) and Star Wars and found it extremely interesting. To make this blog more organized, I will be talking about the comparisons in the order I believe they appear in the hero's journey (as seen in the picture). Both stories begin with the view being in a middle of a intense scene that is not directly related to the main c...