I've always heard the phrase oppisites attract and in many ways its very true. When a characteristic in someone is missing a person opposite to you fulls its place. People yearn to be complete.
The differences in their personalities complement one another in a way that forges an almost unbreakable alliance. Sula is compulsive and uncontrollable while her counterpart, Nel, is sensible and principled. Sula" by Tony Morrison is the story of a friendship between Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who are opposites in the way of relating to other people, to the world around them, and to themselves. .
The personalities of Nel and Sula are formed through their family life. Sula is brought up in a crazy atmosphere with her mother sleeping around, her family being burned to death, and no one really there to comfort and love her like a child needs. Her house life is kaotic and disorderly and they don't seem to mind all the drama they make of it. Sula learns, growing up, that sex is not a sacred thing, its a lesiure activity with no meaning and makes no attachments. Sula also learns that family relationships are not so important. She was raised by her grandmother and never even new her mother tell she was in her adolescents. This showed her that there is no real importance of having family in your life. The mothers in this story only provide a necassary support and shelter for their children but they never make an emotional conection towards them. Sula even overhears her mother, Hannah, saying she loves Sula but just doesn't like her. That phone conversation upsets Sula but a!.
lso makes her stronger in a bad way where she can't even love her mother emotionally. At one point in the story Hannah asks her mother, Eva, if she ever loved them (her children). Eva responds by reminding her of all the things she has sacraficed to raise and protect her children. Eva believes it is enough to just sacrafice things for her children but there doesn't have to be any kind of emotional atachment.
In "Sula," Toni Morrison gives us two such individuals, Nel and Sula. ... (p.29) Nel is confined, Sula is free. ... Similarly, the tidiness of Nel's house compared with the disorderliness of her own allows Sula to "sit still as dawn." ... Nel was as wild and excited as Sula was. ... Nel and Sula gain a b...
