Sula has started off as a very interesting book. Good interesting or bad interesting I can’t decide. The book “Sula” seems to be made up of a bunch of women who all are from the same family. All the characters differ and have very few similarities for all being connected in some way. Nel and Sula are good friends, but are radically different. Nel is quite and Sula is outgoing, two very different personalities. Sula is very tough. I think it was so out of character for a young girl to cut the tip of her finger off, because of Irish boys bullying her and Nel, but she did it to show them what she is capapble of. Sula is different then most young girls, she is smart, knows that she has to make a point to give people something to be afraid of because she is a small black girl, by doing that she shows no tolerance, and a certain edginess that will deter the bullies away from them. This was at the very beginning of the book which shows that we should know that Sula is going to be a different type of character then all the others.
April 15, 2007 at 10:48 pm
I agree with you in that Sula has this edge to her. She is not going to sit there ant let people bully her. She is going to stand up for what she believes is right, and that’s that. When you mentioned it was out of character for her to cut off the tip of her finger, well, I am not so sure that it is proper behavior for anyone, right?; Not just Sula.