Pilate Dead Timeline and Summary

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• Pilate’s mother dies before she is born.
• Pilate lives and works on Lincoln’s farm with her father and brother.
• Pilate watches her father get shot and sees him die slowly.
• Pilate and Macon run to Circe’s house.
• Pilate and Macon stay at Circe’s house for two weeks.
• Pilate misses her wild cherry jam.
• Pilate pierces her ear.
• Pilate and Macon leave Circe’s house.
• Pilate and Macon see their father’s ghost everywhere.
• Pilate and Macon sleep in a cave.
• Pilate watches her brother kill a white man in the cave.
• Pilate fights her brother who wants to steal the gold in the cave.
• Pilate chases her brother out of the cave and stays there for one night.
• Pilate finds room and board with a preacher and his wife.
• Pilate does well in school, especially in geography.
• The preacher starts flirting with Pilate.
• Pilate leaves the preacher’s house.
• Pilate joins a group of migrant farm workers and picks beans in New York.
• Pilate starts dating one of the farm workers, until he notices she doesn’t have a bellybutton.
• Pilate is expelled from the group and is given lots of money as she goes.
• Pilate joins another group of migrant workers.
• Again, she takes a lover.
• Again, the group finds out she doesn’t have a bellybutton.
• Again, Pilate is abandoned.
• Pilate finds work as a washerwoman.
• Pilate catches a wagon down to Virginia.
• Pilate washes clothes at a hotel.
• Pilate moves to an island where a community of farming families dwell.
• Pilate takes a lover, but makes sure he doesn’t see her belly button.
• Pilate has a baby.
• Pilate goes to pick up her father’s bones in the cave.
• Pilate returns and lives on the island for two more years.
• Pilate roams from town to town, and from state to state.
• Pilate has a grandchild, Hagar.
• Hagar is prissy, so Pilate decides to go in search of her brother and his extended family.
• Macon kicks Pilate out of his house.
• Pilate establishes a bootlegging business on Darling Street.
• Pilate helps Ruth get pregnant.
• Pilate helps Ruth keep Milkman alive in the womb.
• Pilate meets Milkman.
• Pilate helps bail Milkman and Guitar out of jail.
• Pilate tells Macon, Milkman, and Guitar what happened the day she and her brother split.
• Pilate talks to Ruth.
• Pilate tries to save Hagar.
• Pilate grieves Hagar.
• Pilate breaks a bottle over Milkman’s head.
• Pilate goes to Shalimar with Milkman.
• Pilate buries her father on Solomon’s Leap.
• Pilate places her snuffbox earring on her father’s grave.
• Pilate gets shot.
• Pilate asks Milkman to take care of Reba for her.
• Pilate wishes she could have loved more people.
• Pilate asks Milkman to sing.
• Pilate dies staring at something beyond Milkman’s shoulder.
• A bird swoops down a grabs her snuffbox earring.