1. Sula: Black Community in White Society
In anguish and uncertainty over the unfamiliar setting around him and his own lost identity, Shadrack begins to cry on a curbside and is picked up by the police and promptly booked for "vagrancy and intoxication," showing white society's destructive stereotyping and lack of concern for those outside of the norm (13). ... He stands in line for nearly a week hoping for the chance to work a masculine road building job, "real work" as he calls it, instead of the waiter position he currently holds (81). ... Eva says at one point that there never was any difference between the two, confirming...
- Word Count: 1501
- Approx Pages: 6
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate