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Sula

"" by Tony Morrison is the story of a friendship between Nel Wright and Peace, who are opposites in the way of relating to other people, to the world around them, and to themselves. Nel is rational and balanced; she gets married and gives in to conformity and the town's expectations. is an irrational and transient character. She follows her immediate passions, completely unaware of the feelings other people might have. However, Nel and are able to function well only when they are together because they complete each other as opposites. However, as separate entities, and Nel are vulnerable and isolated from the rest of world; because she is impulsive and disregards the feelings of other ...

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but otherwise insignificant." (44) grows up in the atmosphere of an emotional separation between mothers and daughters in her family. The mothers provide only the physical maternal support but lack in the emotional attachment to their children. overhears her mother, Hannah, say, "I love her []. I just don't like her, that's the thing." (57) Hannah's words act as a determiner of 's defiance. Hannah and Eva, her mother, are also alienated. "Under Eva's distant eye, and prey to her idiosyncrasies, her own children grew up steadily." (41) This dissatisfaction causes Hannah to ask Eva, "Did you ever love us?" (67) "I know you fed us and all. I was talking 'bout something else. Did you ever, you know play with us?" (68) Eva leaps out of the window to "cover her daughter's body with her own" (75) to save her from a fire; she raises her children single-handedly and even sacrifices her leg to get an insurance because she does not have enough money to feed her children. Proud of ...

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Added: 7/5/2006 05:27:03 AM
Category: English
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