identally drowned Chicken Little, Nel was the calm one and I figured Sula would be because she had dealt with, and just watched, death before. The only death Nel had experienced was that of her grandmother with the woman who used a burnt match to darken her eyebrows, which also struck me as weird. The girls both begin growing up in two different types of households. One house was strict and religious, the other with a lack of morals and a lady in a wagon with one leg. Despite the differences in lifestyle, the girls are attracted to each other and become best friends. The girls accidentally drown Chicken Little, and at this point their relationship begins to deteriorate. Sula leaves for 10 years of affairs, wild life, and a disregard for the rules. She comes back and Nel is married with children. Sula, with some of her mother's passion for men, steals away Nel's husband, which splits their friendship even more. At the end of the book, Nel realizes how much Sula meant to her. Nel realized she'd always looked at herself as the good side of the relationship, and as she spoke with Sula's mother, she realized that she always had tried to make herself good. She realized that when Sula and her husband both disappeared out of her life, it was only Sula she missed. I never really understood why the narrator didn't touch on Sula's feelings as much as Nel's, but I think it's because Nel has more things that affect her emotionally.
             There's never really a balance or peace in the story to begin with. As each character is introduced, it seemed like each one had their own set of problems and the problems would escalate and combine with other problems to make huge problems. For instance, Plum's depression and heroin addiction and Eva's habit of being really weird combined into Eva killing Plum by set
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