Sula :containment

In the beginning of the book Shadrack’s passages show many examples of containment. For example, Shadrack at the beginning with the meal tray “divided into three triangles.” He also says, “All their repugnance was contained…would not explode or burst forth from their restricted zones. There are many more examples of containment with Shadrack for example, “When they bound Shadrack into a straitjacket, he was both relived and grateful, for h

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An example of this is when they say about the people in the town that “They regarded integration with precisely the same venom that white people did. It is a important and reoccurring theme throughout the book. ” The people in the bottom believed that “The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over. For example they thought Sula was an evil witch but “They would no more run Sula out of town than they would kill the robins that brought her back. For example not only are they living in “the bottom” which isolates them from all the white people that live near them. ”

Nel is another example of someone in the book that contains her life. How she does not want anything to change so she lives in the same place for her whole life trying to contain everything. If one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. The people of the bottom even like to contain their evil. ”

Another example of containment is in the way that the characters live their lives. An obvious example of this is every January third Shadrack would celebrate “National Suicide Day” He did this because, “It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both….

Sula is the complete opposite of Nel in the respect that Sula thinks; “The real hell of Hell is that it is forever.

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Approximate Word count = 516
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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