Sula by Toni Morrison

Sula by Toni Morrison

The name Sula is another version of Shulamith (Hebrew) and Ursula (Scandinavian, Latin), and the meaning of the name Sula is 'peace; little she-bear'. Sula is the main character, fearless and brave girl, who later became the scapegoat for the whole city for her anti-conformist and intemperance. On being Egocentric, hateful, fascinating, Sula Peace gives her name to this work going on in there like a puzzle that tramples Manichaeism, conformity and honourable intentions. Sula represents a girl who not only is brought up in a medieval town but opposes its systems and traditions (James and Louisa 1997, 34).

Sula's character

Toni Morrison's second novel, "Sula" is a short novel - not even two-hundred pages in 10/18 - centered on the friendship between two Black girls in the small town of Medallion. Sula, the novel serves as a reference here, originally published in 1973, is a fair sample of the art of Morrison, at least as far as we know it. The author knows what he is talking, knows the clay used for the vessel. His world is the history and representation of black culture in the United States received not from its "benchmarks" (historical and symbolic) and its main characters, but from the younger people, the peoples of the North American interior and dark urban neighborhoods. Therefore, his gaze is that of women (such as Sula and Nel and their grandmothers and mothers and neighbors in this novel), and in particular the girl child (Badt 1995, 567).

The girl the calmest, wisest, strongest and certainly the most conformist, is Nel. There is in this book, even intensive mixture of joy and sadness that is difficult to specify the final impression he leaves his reader. Joy for all the beauty and fled the days of nature, with ...