Category: Sula

We want everything said about us to tell of the best and highest and noblest in us. We fear that the evil in us will be called racial, while in others, it is viewed as individual. (Du Bois, 55-56) W.E.B. Du Bois expressed his desire for the idealized literary representation of the blacks in these…

In literature, symbols are used to represent or give meaning to a particular action or subject. Authors present symbols throughout their novel to conceal its true meaning, which allows the reader to interpret through literal translation. In Sula by Toni Morrison, Sula carries a symbol (a birthmark) that is interpreted in three different ways throughout…

Imagine swinging through 192 pages and realizing your assumptions led you stray? Oddly enough, Toni Morrisons plot has a plethora of twists and happens to deceive us from the instant we set our eyes on the cover. With the novel being titled Sula, when we first hear her name in the readings, we automatically click…

Toni Morrison’s novel ‘Sula’ demonstrates the bond between the two main characters. Its both implicit and silent, as though the two girls can read each others minds. Through the unspoken actions between the two main characters, Morrison introduces one of the main themes of the novel, that though the girls have completely different personalities and…

Abandonment is defined as leaving completely and finally or to forsake utterly. Sometimes in the case of abandonment it causes women to switch roles with males and become the head of the household. Women can use sex as a means of switching roles also and that is what we see in the book Sula. Men…

Two families, two viewpoints, two destinies. Seemingly, the Wrights and the Peaces are discrepant, conflicting, contrasting, antithetical families. In Sula, a 1973 novel by African-American Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, two opposing universes the conventional Wrights home and the Peacess liberal household work unintentionally together to build up strength and entitle women to explore sexual,…

When it comes to Friendship, one might think of playing a game or two with someone you care about. However, in Toni Morrisons novel, Sula, Friendship is not always so black and white. Sulas and Nels relationship are the wildest roller coaster any amusement park could ever hope to have. Sula is a book that…

Sula by Toni Morrison develops a story with Medallions women, especially Sula Peace and Nel Wright in the 20th century. The part one is talking about Sulas childhood and characters background, and Part two is talking about Sulas comeback and her evilness. Readers can find many themes in this novel kinds as Racism, community identity,…