... home, watching her mother burn, and sleeping with Nel's husband. Nel feels the same way about Sula as the townspeople. After the dispute, Nel visits Sula while she was sick in 1940. Sula does not apologize, and no regrets. Sula even goes as far as to suggest that Nel does not know good from evil. That she is ... can be viewed the same way. There were also many symbols portrayed in this novel. One of the first symbols is fire. Sula watched both her uncle and her Mom burn to death. Sula and Nel are symbols of good and evil, even though it is not really clear which one is which. The plague ...

• Word Count: 1103
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... child Nel. Helene carefully and successfully raises her daughter, Nel, to be like her, living a life free from shame and immorality. Sula Peace is one of Nel's good friends. Sula live in a house with her grandmother, her mother, and several staryboarders including a white alcoholic named Tarbaby and three young boys all ... good-byes. She then pours kerosene on him and lights him on fire. After the death of her favorite child, Plum, she stops going downstairs. Sula's mother, Hannah, is a deeply sensual woman who sleeps with all the men in The Bottom. The women in the community like Hann...

• Word Count: 1420
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... structured around the development of friendship. It talks of love, understanding, commitment, betrayal, and coming to the reality of life on hand. Through out the novel Sula is view as being evil for leaving the Bottom and trying to make a change in her life; while Nel is view as conforming to the life of a ... time is her devastating end of friendship with Nel, after she feels betrayed when Nel marries Jude and actually ruins it by sleeping with him. After Sula returns to the Bottom after being gone for ten years, all she encounters in hate and ignorance of the community. Everything tha...

• Word Count: 986
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... , 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...

• Word Count: 2894
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School