Macon Dead, Jr. (Milkman) Timeline and Summary

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• Milkman is the first black child born in Mercy Hospital.
• Ruth stops breastfeeding Milkman when he’s four years old. He gets his nickname at this same time.
• Milkman pees on Lena.
• Milkman gets picked on in school.
• Milkman meets Guitar.
• Milkman meets his bootlegging aunt, Pilate.
• Milkman falls in love with Hagar’s booty.
• Milkman and Guitar try to get beers at Mary’s.
• Milkman develops a strut.
• Guitar takes Milkman to all of the greatest parties.
• Milkman hits his father.
• Macon tells Milkman the "truth" about his mother’s incestuous tendencies.
• Milkman tries to find Guitar, and finds himself on a sidewalk where he’s going the exact opposite of everyone else.
• Milkman tells Guitar the news about his mom.
• Milkman hangs out at Honoré Island.
• Milkman dates other girls.
• Milkman breaks up with Hagar.
• Milkman is hunted by Hagar.
• Milkman and Guitar fight.
• Milkman follows his mom to her father’s cemetery late one night.
• Macon tells Milkman to steal Pilate’s gold.
• Milkman and Guitar steal Pilate’s "gold."
• Milkman and Guitar are arrested.
• Macon and Pilate bail Milkman and Guitar out of jail.
• Milkman sleeps in.
• Milkman takes a bath.
• Milkman tries to find Guitar, and sees the Seven Days in action.
• Milkman tells Macon that Corinthians is dating Henry Porter.
• Lena yells at Milkman.
• Milkman takes a plane and a bus to Danville.
• Milkman meets Reverend Cooper and stays at his house for four days.
• Milkman goes to the Butler house and meets Circe.
• Milkman finds the cave, but no gold.
• Milkman eats cheeseburgers.
• Milkman helps a man lift a crate onto a dolly.
• Milkman catches a bus to Virginia.
• Milkman stops in several towns in Virginia, asking the locals where the town of "Charlemagne" is.
• Milkman’s car breaks down in Shalimar.
• Milkman drinks a soda and insults the locals.
• Milkman gets into a knife fight with a toothless man and gets a little bloody.
• Milkman is invited hunting.
• Milkman takes a nap in his car.
• Milkman goes hunting.
• Milkman is exhausted, and sits down by a tree.
• Guitar tries to kill Milkman, but Milkman scares him away with his shotgun.
• Milkman helps the hunting party skin the bobcat.
• Milkman takes the heart of the bobcat.
• Milkman meets Sweet.
• Milkman meets Susan Byrd and Grace Long.
• Milkman encounters Guitar.
• Milkman hears the Shalimar children sing a song about his family.
• Milkman returns to Susan Byrd’s to get more information about his family.
• Milkman goes skinny dipping with Sweet.
• Milkman returns home, and goes straight to Pilate’s house.
• Pilate breaks a bottle over Milkman’s head and locks him in the cellar.
• Milkman tells Pilate about what he learned down south.
• Milkman returns home with Hagar’s hair.
• Milkman drives Pilate to Shalimar.
• Milkman and Pilate bury Jake’s bones.
• Milkman cradles Pilate’s dying body.
• Milkman sings to Pilate.
• Milkman calls to Guitar.
• Milkman jumps off the rock.