An important and ambiguous event occurs in the novel of the Song of Songs. The author, Toni Morrison, leaves it up to the reader to interpret the question of whether or not Macon killed the "white" man in the novel. In the Song of Solomon, Macon tells his son, Milkman, the story of when his father was killed by white men and he and his sister Pilate ran away together. Macon says that he and Pilate were followed by "a man who looked just like their father." (168) After being followed by this man for three days, they decided to find a way to escape by taking shelter in an unused cave. In the middle of the night, Macon awoke to find a man sleeping next to him, "very old, very white, and his smile was horrible." (169) Spurred by the images floating in his mind of his father's cold-blooded murder at the hands of white men, Macon lashed out in anger and threw a rock at the "white" man's head. Instead of falling to the ground, the “white” man “kept going and going” (169) toward Macon. This action of the smiling, sadistic "white" man indicated Macon's feeling that the white race would not cease to plague his life....