The end of Sula was very weird. I didn’t quite understand why Nel decided to forgive Sula. What I think was that she knew that since Sula was dying, she would never have another chance to make things right between two friends. So by going to talk to Sula after Sula getting sick showed that their friendship was strong even though they hadn’t talked for a very long time. Nel wasn’t going to let a man, who meant nothing to Sula get between them. When Nel went to Sula’s funeral she was the only black person that showed that she was brave, and not ashamed of her friends.
When Sula died people saw of it as a good thing. But she wasn’t all that bad to the people in the bottom. They just did things differently. Sula was raised with different values then most young girls. And the saying “that apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree” is a very true statement. She was raised thinking certain things were okay to do, so naturally she is going to grow up and live up to those expectations. If Sula was raised differently, she wouldn’t have grown up differently.
April 30, 2007 at 12:53 am
I think people just found her weird only because of the way she lived. I mean, she was differently the scapegoat, but that doesn’t make her a bad person. In fact, I was kind of sad when she died. She was happy that it wasn’t as bad as she thought it was, but death isn’t a pleasant thing in the slightest, in my opinion