Pilate's Character Analysis

Pilate has a recurring motif of representing a pilot, in likeness to her name. This is a part of her character and choices to view the name not as it’s literal meaning, but how she wants it to mean. This translates to her role as a mentor to Milkman in obvious ways, as a pilot, a guide. Pilate asks herself three questions to determine what’s important to her in life “When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference. What do I need to know to stay alive. What is true in the world.” In asking these questions she opens herself up to change, change the eventually manifests and becomes the nature of her character as we see it in Milkman’s time. This character is what allows her to be such a strong moral guide to Milkman, she’s crafted