1. Sula
This is the meaning of friendship, a theme central to Sula. Friendship is one of the most dear things in the lives of everyone. It supports, helps, comforts, and at times appropriate, provides a needed kick in the ass. From Sula, the book, we learn the importance of friendship, the pain of betrayal, and the pain of loss.
Growing up is hard. That is an indisputable fact. However, when you have a friend, you have someone to grow up with, someone to share your pain. Friendship is the most important thing in a child's life. From Sula, we watch the girls, Nel and Sula throughout their friendship. The bonds of a true friendship can never be broken. Separation provides no obstacle, neither does the passage of time. It is their ability to pick up where they had left off which makes their friendship so great.
Betrayal may be defined as harm of disloyalty to another person. Harm does not always have to be physical, which would fade, it is the feel-it-deep-in-your-soul harm that hurts the most. Take sleeping with your best friend's husband for example, that one act, committed out of ignorance on Sula's part of Nel's feelings. Sula did not realize how she would hurt Nel, by sleeping with Jude. After all, they did use to share ice cream and the like. This act ripped their friendship apart, completely destroying their relationship, also ruining the relationship between Jude and Nel. It takes years to build trust, and build a close relationship, yet it takes only minurtes, seconds even to make a bad decision and completely ruin that friendship.
Loss, or grief can change a person completely. The loss of life is not necessarily the worst kind of loss. It is when you lose something that was so good, so sweet that is the most painful thing. Nel lost the most in this book. She lost her best friend of many years, and her husband. She lost the two people who were the closest and best friends she had, to eachother.
Sula by Toni Morrison Toni Morrison's Sula is a novel that has a theme about the nature of evil. ... She is especially offended by Sula's behavior, because Sula sleeps with her husband. ... Nel's outrage at Sula's actions is similar to the town's anger at Sula and we see the personal hurt that Sula's inconsiderate actions have caused. ... Nel had just gotten married, while Sula left for the city. ... Ignoring her opinion about Sula's actions with Jude, she longs for the Sula saying, "We was girls together. ...
Nel and Sula as a Dual Self In her novel, Sula, Toni Morrison uses the archetype of the dual self through the friendship of Sula and Nel: the two characters are a part of each other. ... Sula blamed herself fully for Chicken Little's accident and Nel made no attempt to change Sula's thinking. ... Sula's motive for sleeping with Jude can be explained because Nel was Sula's other half. ... Sula is very attached to Nel. ... After Sula's death, in a sense, Nel "woke up". ...
Sula "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. ... Sula is an irrational and transient character. ... Sula overhears her mother, Hannah, say, "I love her [Sula]. ... She loses her true unique self after Sula is gone. ... Nel is Sula's connection to other people, while Sula is Nel's connection to herself. ...
In "Sula," Toni Morrison gives us two such individuals, Nel and Sula. ... (p.29) Nel is confined, Sula is free. ... Nel was as wild and excited as Sula was. ... Nel and Sula would not speak again until three years later when Sula was on her deathbed. ... Nel and Sula gain a b...
The novel Sula written by Toni Morrison is structured around the development of friendship. ... Sula grows up feeling very excluded, guilty and very much unloved. ... Sula in the novel, only cross this line two different time. ... After encountering all the episodes Sula had in the community and having her friendship with Nel fail; the single most important person in her life, Sula feels totally isolated. ... Nel on the other hand is the very direct opposite of Sula. ...
Sula Peace is one of Nel's good friends. ... Nel assures Sula that it was just an accident, but Sula feels terrible. ... Nel is Sula's opposite in many respects. ... Sula grows up feeling guilty and unloved. ... Sula is a novel about ambiguity. ...
Toni Morrison's Sula chronicles the unlikely friendship of two very different women. ... Like 1965, Sula represents anti-conservativism. ... For Sula, the marriage vow is not sacred. ... Sula refuses society's interpellation of her. ... In very much the same sense, Sula does the same thing. ...
In the end, Sula dies alone in her bed. ... A perfect example is Sula's grandmother Eva. ... Sula acted like anyone would expect. ... Sula may have thrown him, but Nel's apathy was far more evil than Sula's accident. ... (Sula)" "Did he see?...