Toni Morrisons Novel Sula
In the novel Sula, by Toni Morrison we follow the life of Sula Peace through out her childhood in the twenties until her death in 1941. The novel surrounds the black community in Medallion, specifically "the bottom". By reading the story of Sula’s life, and the life of the community in the bottom, Morrison shows us the important ways in which families and communities can shape a child’s identity. Sula not only portrays the way children are shaped, but also the way that a community receives an adult who challenges the very environment that molded them. Sula’s actions and much of her personality is a direct result of her childhood in the bottom. Sula’s identity contains many elements of a strong, independent feminist character. However, the people in Medallion do not see Sula in a positive light. When she returns to Medallion as an adult Sula is seen as evil and regarded with much fear. The reason Sula outcast from the community is specifically due to the fact that she is a woman who refuses to contain herself in the social norms set up for the town. She refuses to marry and fre
She attempts to live her life the most free she can. She not only took sex from men as pleasure, but sought out to claim power over them. They absorbed the outrageous, and different actions of Shadrack as part of their lives because he was a male. Specifically the way the characters, Shadrack and Hannah are treated by the community can be compared to the way the community treats Sula. "The men, surprisingly, never gossiped about her. she was free of any normal signs of vulnerability. This made the women upset and furthered their hatred for Sula. She too sleeps with only the husbands of other women.
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