ENC 1102 Miami Dade College Sula Novel by Toni Morrison Narrative Essay

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Your literary analysis essay will be on the novel Sula by Toni Morrison. You can choose from any of the topics listed below (recommended) or explore further topics in the chapter on Sula, pp. X to Y in the book How to Write about Toni Morrison (linked Your literary analysis should be between 2 ½ and 3 pages (600 to 750 words), not including the Works Cited page, should be double spaced in Times New Roman 12point font and must include:ere for your convenience).

Choose from the following topics: 1. Analyze the ending of the novel. What are the “circles of sorrow” that Nel experiences? Is the ending pessimistic, optimistic, or something else altogether? 2. Nel and Sula’s friendship is central in the novel. What role does this friendship play in Nel and Sula’s lives and what point is Morrison making about the role of life-long friendships in the formation of identity? 3. How do people who are intensely individualistic fare in the novel? Is it possible to break away from the values of the community and to be one’s own person? Answer the question with reference to at least two of the novel’s characters. 4. How and by whom is love expressed in the novel? In what ways is the love in the novel a ease the suffering of the characters? How is love not enough to appease the characters in light of their suffering? 5. In what ways are the various characters in the novel alienated from the community? How do they cope with their loneliness, their preoccupations, and other after effects of feeling abandoned? 6. Compare and contrast the journey of self-discovery for two characters in the book. Remember to take a position in your thesis that establishes the significance of the comparison and contrast. 7. Contrast Nel’s relationship to her mother and Sula’s interaction with her mother. Remember to take a position in your thesis that establishes the significance of the contrast. 8. Trace the use of three symbols in the novel and explain their connection to a theme in the novel. 9. What does Shadrack’s character teach us about the after effects of war and the ways mentally ill people can be ostracized from a community? 10. Although no one has ever joined Shadrack on National Suicide Day, in the chapter titled 1941, much of the town marches toward the tunnel where they have not been able to get work and in their rage, the try to “kill, as best they could, the tunnel they were forbidden to build” (160). What is the significance of the event at the tunnel and the resulting deaths there?


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Analysis of Toni Morrison's Sula Ending
Introduction
Sula by Toni Morrison is a novel that narrates the lives of Sula and her friend Nel within
a black-dominated community. The two friends, Nel and Sula, grow up together with each
admiring the other's life. Nel admires Sula's messy house, the people, and the noise on top of the
fact that no one bothers them as they are playing. Sula, however, admires Nel's clean, wellorganized and quiet house. Their bond came from their upbringing, which involved mothers who
were never present or concerned about their affairs towards guiding them from teenagehood to
adulthood. Additionally, Nel gets a positive perception of herself with Sula around how she
stopped pulling her nose to look sleeker and not fat like her father's. However, the two friends
get a way to live through the chaos surrounding their lives. As the novel continues, Sula and Nel
continue growing into different yet close friends while interacting with other characters in the
story. The ending, however, carries a lot of information and actions from past events, including
Nel and Sula's friendship that once got threatened after Sula slept with Nel's husband. Nel
experiences sorrow after Sula's death, where she remembers how close they were as friends,
leading to a pessimistic and tragic ending.
Circles of Sorrow Experience...


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