Nel is a calm and well-behaved girl who has no choice but to conform to her mother's wishes. Sula on the other hand grows up in a "wooly house, where a pot of something was always cooking on the stove; where the mother, Hannah, never scolded or gave directions; where all sorts of people dropped in; where newspapers were stacked in the hallway, and dirty dishes left for hours at a time in the sink, and where a one legged grandmother named Eva handed you goobers from deep inside her pockets or read you a dream (Morrison 29)." Nel has an attraction to Sula's environment, which does not have "the oppressive neatness of her home (Morrison 29)." Likewise, Sula has an attraction to Nel's environment. When visiting Nel's house she would "sit on the red-velvet sofa for ten to twenty minutes at a time--still as dawn (Morrison 29)." Nel was raised in the image of her mother, whereas Sula has very few ties to her mother. The world of Sula must have seemed very odd and new to Nel, and likewise for Sula. They both had something that the other did not. This lack of something is at the core of the character of these girls. They come from opposite ends of a magnet. Nel is orderly; Sula is unsettled. The comfort each of them feels in the other's home is an indication of a common desire to be one. They each want to be immersed in the qualities of their counterpart. The one time in the book when they seem to have crossed each other's boundaries was after the accidental death of Chicken Little caused by Sula. Nel admits to herself that she had blamed his death entirely on Sula and set herself up as the "good" half of the relationship. That moment when Sula and Nel interchanged personalities demonstrates this merger. "Their friendship was so close, they themselves had difficulty distinguishing one's thoughts from the other's (Morrison 83)." To Nel, "Talking to Sula had always been a conversation with herself (Morrison 95).
Toni Morrison was born as Chloe Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, near Cleveland. ... In 1970, her first novel The Bluest Eye was published under the name of Toni Morrison. ... Only once does Sula fall in love. ... In the novel Sula, author Toni Morrison proves that love is not easy. ... Toni Morrison's Sula expresses death in this way, as a part of life. ...
Toni Morrison in her novel titled Sula uses death as a reoccurring theme, which essentially allots the reader to use divergent rather than convergent thinking. ... All other references to Toni Morrison's Sula will be indicated by page reference to this text). ... Morrison presents yet another situation that shows death by the action of killing. ... Hannah does not have a grasp of the meaning of love. ... You love her, like I love Sula. ...
Toni Morrison's Sula chronicles the unlikely friendship of two very different women. ... In the final pages of Morrison's book, Nel decides to accept and understand how Sula chooses to interpellate herself. ... And while Norman Morrison is not a relative of Toni Morrison, the reader can't help but notice their same name - again allying the novel and Norman's untimely end. Toni Morrison first published Sula in 1973, and would have been aware of all the events just mentioned. ... This conflict comes to a head when Sula finds herself "on all fours naked" with Nel's husb...
Sula by Toni Morrison Toni Morrison's Sula is a novel that has a theme about the nature of evil. ... The novel shows society's negative view of her when it describes how Sula arrived "accompanied by a plague of robins" (Morrison 89). ... Toni Morrison makes a powerful statement about evil through the friendship between Nel and Sula. ... Sula could even be viewed as good instead of evil, because it is her actions that make the people of the Bottom "protect and love one another. ... Toni Morrison is proving that evil is a concept that is different for e...
She says she doesn't love Sula then, she catches on fire and burns to death while Sula watches and fails to help her. ... Basic Novel Summary: Toni Morrison's novel Sula chronicles the lives of influential woman living in the mostly black community of "the Bottom- from 1919 to 1965. ... She returns amongst a "plague of robins- (Morrison 89) and is viewed as evil by most of the community because of her history of sexual relations with white men. ... (Morrison 147). ... (Morrison 174). ...
Toni Morrison, one of the most remarkable African American authors and her novels remind readers that there is a past to remember. ... Within the novels, Toni Morrison presents the complex stories of African American experience, and especially African American women's experience and their search for identity in the American mainstream society. In Toni Morrison novel Sula, women's friendship is presented as a safe haven from the dysfunction of lack of mother/daughter relationships, focus on the significance of women's bonding between Sula and Nel, the onset of the childhood frien...
A novel entitled Sula was released by Toni Morrison. ... Some critics loved SUla and how it contrasted love and evil (Rhodes 58). ... Sara Blackburn of the NY times book review said; "Toni Morrison is far too talented to remain only a marvelous recorder of the black side of the provincial American life" (century 50). Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford, on February 18, 1931. ... In conclusion, the book Sula , by Toni Morrison shows that what is good and evil can only be determined by the individual. ...
In "Sula," Toni Morrison gives us two such individuals, Nel and Sula. Morrison says she created Sula as "a woman who could be used as a classic type of evil force" and that she "wanted Nel to be a warm, conventional woman". ( Toni Morrison. ... Morrison says, "... if they had been one woman... they would have been a rather marvelous person". (Toni Morrison) Thus, Morrison, creates two completely different women yet allows them to merge into one. ... Morrison deliberately portrays Nel and Sula in this manner to illustrate emphatically how entirely different they originally are. ...
In Toni Morrison's novels, she describes the racial tension, the heritage of Blacks, and the struggles Blacks have to overcome in a world that doesn't accept them. While exploring these various emotions, Toni Morrison also changes the styles in each novel. ... Morrison "uses the contrast between Shirley Temple and Pecola to underscore the irony of black experience" states Phyllis R. ... Breedlove recalls losing her romantic side and remembers how Cholly and her made love when they were young. ... Toni Morrison lets the characters add their own bits and pieces to the stories, as...
