... acts are usually necessary and are the lesser of two evils. Although many of the characters do things that society views as wrong, the main character Sula personifies all that society views as evil. To contrast the evil, there is the character Nel, who personifies all that society views as good and right ... of the characters in the story perform acts that are viewed as evil but the people and the acts have good intentions behind them. A perfect example is Sula's grandmother Eva. Early in the story, Eva leaves town for eighteen months and then returns missing a leg and doesn't tell anyone...

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... of war. The two novels stage the loss of a female friendship as well as a shell-shocked warrior whose fragmented consciousness expressed the brutalities of war. In Toni Morrison's novel Sula, she uses characters similarities and differences that they might share in personalities. Morrison uses different characters to confronting issues of identity belonging and experiences of life. The two characters that ... reflect the sentiments of antiwar aspects are, Shadrock and Sula. In Mrs. Dolloway the two characters that Virginia Woolfe uses are Clarissa Dolloway and Septimus. This paper will i...

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... , and had casual sex with other women husbands as much as she could. The people of the town began to have a strong hate for Sula, blaming her for everything wrong in their community. When in all actuality, her actions subliminally made them better people. It had been three years ... includes only actions not directed towards friendship, while her sleeping with Jude was an attempt at forming a friendship. However, Nel feels quite hurt, because Sula "had no thought at all of causing Nel pain when she bedded down with Jude" (Morrison 119). Whereas before "they had always shared the affecti...

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... whom she named after herself but called Pearl, and a son named Ralph, whom she called Plum."(Pg. 32). The Peace household also consists of Eva's granddaughter, Sula, the Dewey's, Tar Baby, and young married couples. Eva's role is clearly set in this story. She is the head of the peace household and a mother ... starts stealing money from his mother so he can supply his addiction. She sets him on fire, kills him, and his role in life is over. Sula is the person who this novel is named after. She is a very free-spirited young African-American woman. She looks at the bottom and top ... of...

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• Grade Level: High School