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SULA

SULA. TONI MORRISON. Sula Peace :. the main  protagonist , who affects the whole community of the Bottom with her return. Eva Peace.

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SULA

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  1. SULA TONI MORRISON

  2. Sula Peace: • the main protagonist, who affects the whole community of the Bottom with her return.

  3. Eva Peace • Sula's grandmother, who is missing one leg. Though the circumstances are never fully explained, it is suggested that she purposely put it under a train in order to collect insurance money to support her three young children.

  4. BoyBoy: • Sula's grandfather, who leaves Eva for another woman.

  5. Hannah Peace: • Sula's mother; Eva's eldest daughter. Hannah is a care-free woman who burned to death early on. Her daughter Sula witnessed the fire but did nothing.

  6. Eva (Pearl) Peace: • Sula's aunt; Eva Sr.'s youngest daughter and middle child.

  7. Ralph (Plum) Peace: • Sula's uncle; Eva's son and youngest child. Plum was a WWIveteran and a heroin addict. Eva burns him alive with kerosene because of his mental instability.

  8. Helene Wright: • Nel'sstrait-laced and clean mother.

  9. Nel Wright: • Sula's best friend (can also be considered a main protagonist) who doesn't want to be like her mother because she will never be reduced to "custard" and she will not be humiliated by other people as her mother is.

  10. Shadrack: • A paranoid shell-shocked WWIveteran, who returns to Sula and Nel's hometown, Medallion. He invents National Suicide Day.

  11. Jude Greene: • Nel'shusband, who leaves Nel due to a love affair with Sula.

  12. Ajax (Albert Jacks): • Sula's confidant and lover.

  13. Tar Baby (Pretty Johnnie): • A quiet, cowardly, and reserved partially or possibly fully white man who rents out one of the rooms in the Peace household. It is believed that Tar Baby has come up to the bottom to drink himself to death.

  14. The deweys: • three boys, each about one year apart from one another in age, who were each nicknamed "Dewey" by Eva. Their real names are never written in the novel, and after the introduction of these characters, the three were referred as one being, thus Morrison's use of a lowercase "d" in "dewey" for the rest of the novel.

  15. Chicken Little: • The little boy whom Sula accidentally drowns by throwing into the river.

  16. 1900 - 1973 • Sula, published in 1973 in New York • Toni Morrison's second novel • Set in the early 1900s in a small Ohio town called Medallion • SULA tells the story of two African-American friends, Sula and Nel, from their childhood through their adulthood and Sula's death. Morrison drew on her own small-town, Midwestern childhood to create this tale of conformity and rebellion.

  17. Sula is a multi-facetednovel • It is, first of all, a story of the friendship of two black women (Sula and Nel) • It runs over a period of almost 45 years

  18. FRIENDSHIP BROKEN • The friendship, which begins in about 1921 • continues through high school • until Nel’s marriage to Jude • Nel, however, interrupts Sula and Jude as they are having sex • Jude and Sula leave town together

  19. SULA’S RETURN • Sula soon returns alone • Nelhas no contact with Sula for three more years • Nel goes to Sula when she finds out that Sula is dying. • Sula tells Nel that if Nel had truly loved her, Nel would have forgiven her. • Nel still does not forgive and continues to ask why Sula behaved as she did.

  20. SULA’S DEATH • It is only after Sula's death and burial that Nel realizes that it has been Sula—not Jude—whom Nel has missed through the years

  21. About the Book • Nominated for the National Book Award • This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines - from their growing up together in a small Ohio town,

  22. OUTLINE • sharply divergent paths of womanhood • ultimate confrontation • and reconciliation.

  23. Nel Wright chooses to remain in the place of her birth, to marry, to raise a family, and to become a pillar of the tightly-knit black community. Sula Peace rejects all that Nel has accepted. She escapes to college and submerges herself in city life. When she returns to her roots, it is as a rebel, a mocker and a wanton sexual seductress.

  24. Both women must suffer the consequences of their choices; both must decide if they can afford to harbor the love they have for each other; and both combine to create an unforgettable rendering of what it means and costs to exist and survive as a black woman in America.

  25. Hailed by critics for its stunning language and its original, honest depiction of the black way of life after the Civil War, Sula is a lyrical blend of myth and magic, as real as a history lesson, and as enchanting as a fable.

  26. lesbian novel • Barbara Smith has argued that Sula is a lesbian novel'notbecause Nel and Sula are lesbians - they decidedly are not - but because the novel provides a critique of heterosexual institutions.'[3].

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