6/11/2023 0 Comments Sula by toni morrison![]() ![]() Sula and Nel begin a friendship and are soon threatened by a gang of harassing Irish Catholic white boys. Eva's devotion to Plum does not allow her to watch him decay, so, after rocking him to sleep one night, she kills him by dousing his bed with kerosene and lighting it. Her son, Plum, returns from World War I emotionally wrecked and sinks under his sadness into alcoholism and drug addiction. The matriarchal Eva rules the household from a rocking chair fitted into a child's wagon. One-legged Eva Peace, her daughter Hannah, and Hannah's child, Sula, live in a large house filled with friends, extended family, and assorted boarders. Her daughter, Nel, watches and vows never to let anyone belittle her so cruelly. During a journey by train back to New Orleans to visit her ailing, beloved grandmother, she is humiliated by a bigoted white conductor. Helene Sabat, the daughter of a New Orleans prostitute, marries Wiley Wright, a man from the Bottom, and establishes a respectable home there. ![]() Alone and disoriented, Shadrack drifts back to his home in the Bottom, where he becomes known for his eccentricity and for creating National Suicide Day, January 3, a day once a year on which people can commit suicide and not be stigmatized for doing so. Just after the end of World War I, Shadrack, a black, shell-shocked veteran, is released from the military hospital where he is being treated for battle stress. ![]()
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