Sula Essay
In the novel Sula all the characters have their roles that they're molded into just like everyone does in life. Based in the time that it takes place in and the fact that the vast majority of the characters are African-American their roles are pretty much forced for them to live by a predominately White- male society. The introduction to the novel starts off towards the end of slave times (the late 1800's). A good white farmer promised freedom and a piece of bottom land to his slave if he would perform some very difficult chores (pg. 5). The slave performs the chores and the White farmer tricks the slave into wanting the hilly land, which he gets. The hilly land is the worst land possible to have. Where Planting was backbreaking, where the soil slid down and washed away the seeds, and where the wind lingered all through the winter (pg. 5). Getting the worst land possible fit the slave's role perfectly. Because he was a slave he always got the worst end of everything and by getting the so-called "bottom land" he got the worst end of the deal.Throughout the next few years the town of Medallion was formed. It was a poor town but the people who lived there made the best of it. Their roles in life in
But in the following years after the town accepted it and went along with it. She goes away for a while and comes back with only one leg and about ten thousand dollars to provide for her children. It consists of her children, "Hannah, the eldest, and Eva, whom she named after herself but called Pearl, and a son named Ralph, whom she called Plum. She assumes this role as head of the Peace household until Sula has her put in a home because she sets her son Plum on fire. But from everything she gets blamed on her something good comes out of it. The town of Medallion is a predominately black town, located in Ohio during the early 1900's. She also becomes the town scapegoat. The first year the townspeople were kind-of scared and thought Shadrack was crazy for doing it. Teapots mom becomes the best mom in the world and the wives of the husbands who cheated on them, their marriages get better. After ten years she comes back to Medallion and lives out the role of being a rebel and temptress. Sula says, "You say I'm a woman and colored. Nel's role in life is that she is Sula's best friend. These are the people's roles that they are molded into because of the time this story takes place and the setting it is in.
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