Toni Morrison in her novel titled Sula uses death as a reoccurring theme, which essentially allots the reader to use divergent rather than convergent thinking. ... It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of it (Morrison 14. All other references to Toni Morrison's Sula will be indicated by page reference to this text). ... Morrison presents yet another situation that shows death by the action of killing. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Toni Morrison's Sula chronicles the unlikely friendship of two very different women. ... And while Norman Morrison is not a relative of Toni Morrison, the reader can't help but notice their same name - again allying the novel and Norman's untimely end. Toni Morrison first published Sula in 1973, and would have been aware of all the events just mentioned. ... (Morrison 92). ... Or so it seemed" (Morrison 163). ...

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Toni Morrison is the author of seven, critically acclaimed, novels and a professor at Princeton University. ... As Sara Blackburn wrote in her review of Sula after the book's release in 1973, "Toni Morrison is someone who really knows how to clank a senten and her dialogue is so compressed and life-like it sizzles (Blackburn)." ... The power of love in Toni Morrison's Sula was manifested in relationships involving family, friendship and sex. ... (Morrison, 69). ... Morrison insists that there is a difference between loving and liking someone. ...

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In Toni Morrison's novel Sula, she uses characters similarities and differences that they might share in personalities. Morrison uses different characters to confronting issues of identity belonging and experiences of life. ... Morrison displays the antiwar sentiments by mirroring the characters, both being products of society. ... Morrison did not support war. ... Morrison and Woolfe both share sentiments of antiwar. ...

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Toni Morrison was born as Chloe Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, near Cleveland. ... To help pay for Toni's education, her father worked three jobs. ... In 1970, her first novel The Bluest Eye was published under the name of Toni Morrison. ... In the novel Sula, author Toni Morrison proves that love is not easy. ... Toni Morrison's Sula expresses death in this way, as a part of life. ...

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A novel entitled Sula was released by Toni Morrison. ... Sara Blackburn of the NY times book review said; "Toni Morrison is far too talented to remain only a marvelous recorder of the black side of the provincial American life" (century 50). Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford, on February 18, 1931. ... As a child Morrison was a good storyteller and reader (Bloom 10). ... In conclusion, the book Sula , by Toni Morrison shows that what is good and evil can only be determined by the individual. ...

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In "Sula," Toni Morrison gives us two such individuals, Nel and Sula. Morrison says she created Sula as "a woman who could be used as a classic type of evil force" and that she "wanted Nel to be a warm, conventional woman". ( Toni Morrison. ... Morrison says, "... if they had been one woman... they would have been a rather marvelous person". (Toni Morrison) Thus, Morrison, creates two completely different women yet allows them to merge into one. ... (p.29) Morrison makes it clear in these instances that "each one lacked something the other had." ...

• Word Count: 1910
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• Grade Level: High School

One factor that men served in Toni Morrison's book Sula was their ability to change the women around them. For example, two of the men in the book, BoyBoy and Ajax, had a strong effect on two of the most unimpressionable women in the book, Sula and Eva. While BoyBoy and Ajax remain unaffected by r...

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Sula "Sula" by Tony Morrison is the story of a friendship between Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who are opposites in the way of relating to other people, to the world around them, and to themselves. ... "Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male they had set out about creating something else to be." (52) In "Sula," Toni Morrison dwells on the dream of a new, strong, African American woman. ... By splitting the qualities of a whole and complete personality into two, Toni Morrison stresses how necessary both components are to the image of the new,...

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In Toni Morrison's novel, Sula, Sula and Nel did not have the best family situations but they had each other. ... "So when they met, first in those chocolate halls and next through the ropes of the swing, they felt the ease and comfort of old friends" (Morrison 52). ... Toni Morrison's novel shows the meaning of friends and soul mates in this novel. ...

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Tonni Morrison's novel Sula is about two young black girls who become very close friends but soon depart after taking different paths through life. ... Sula's mother Hannah was a widow and "had a steady sequence of lovers, mostly the husbands of her friend's and neighbors" (Morrison 42). ... In Toni Morrison's Sula, the community defines their morality in contrast to Sula's immorality. ... However, Nel feels quite hurt, because Sula "had no thought at all of causing Nel pain when she bedded down with Jude" (Morrison 119). Whereas before "they had always shared the ...

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• Grade Level: High School