... family if one can count on their friends to help them survive. Friends are a necessity in life. In Toni Morrison's novel, Sula, Sula and Nel did not have the best family situations but they had each other. Their friendship was more than enough to help them survive their teenage years ... be separated. They were similar because they struggled with the fact they were black females whom everyone else looked down upon. Throughout their upbringing, Nel and Sula influenced each others lives. "They found relief in each other's personality" (53). Together they made the ideal human being. One's ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... her and made her a more cautious person with a loss of innocence and trust. As a result, she shuts herself off to her three children (one of them, Sula's mother, even asks Eva if she actually loved her). BoyBoy, however, seems relatively unaffected by the whole thing. Ajax is another man in the book who holds a ... women (with the exception of his mother), in his opinion, were mindless things that just wanted to sleep with him and who he could easily control. Sula was different though: "this was perhaps the only other woman he knew whose life was her own, who could deal with life efficie...

• Word Count: 994
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School