What about Ruth?

Ruth seems like an important character. Am I wrong? I feel that she is really misunderstood. Ruth may have made some poor life desicions, like marrying Macon Dead, drugging him, breast-feeding Milkman way too long, and the way she was caught with her deceased father. I think there is something to say about her willingness to stay in her loveless existance. Loveless as in her marriage with Macon Dead Jr., and her relationship with her son whom she loves dearly yet he does not feel anything strongly towards her. Milkman is her only reason leftfor living, or living in her current state - and he abandons her. And when she learns Hagar is trying to kill him she takes a stand. While no one loves Ruth, the love and strength she occasionally exudes is incredible. She has a very strong spirit, and life ahs taken so many swings at it. Ruth is an important character, I hope as the novel goes on that that is realized and comes into the story line. 

What's wrong with Guitar?

I think there is significant irony when it comes to the group of men called The Seven Days. The Seven Days group kills a white person everytime a black person is murdered. They attempt to hold the revenge murders on the same day that the first took place, and keep it within the same fashion too. Like if a black woman is raped and murdered, then a white woman will be raped and murdered too. Guitar tries to justify these actions by saying that they're just trying to keep things equal between the populations. He claims that it's in white peoples blood to murder. So by carrying out these murders on them isn't he being a little hypocritical? He doesn't have to kill people - but that's the only solution that occurs to them. Sure, within Guitar and many others lives they've been severely wronged by the white people, but that doesn't nescessaryily justify killing them. He tries to say that they are unatural so they need to be killed, which is really concerning, psychotic, and slightly genocidal. I think all his motives hide behind revenge, not any real reasoning on his part that they have to be eliminated. Which makes him as bad as the white people.