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Read in January, 1989
The usual caveats apply with regards to my review and rating of this book (see my profile), but overall I didn't enjoy Sula because it made me profoundly uncomfortable. I distinctly remember feeling depressed and disheartened by the premise put forth by the novel that in order for a woman to be truly free, she had to behave like Sula--whose behavior I found quirky at best and reprehensible at worst.
What's more, even Sula with all her freedom didn't seem to be truly happy--there were still t...more
What's more, even Sula with all her freedom didn't seem to be truly happy--there were still t...more
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Read in September, 2007
I disliked Sula.
Sula the book was great; a bit dry at points, but - of course - very well written, very well rendered by Toni Morrison. This is my first TM book, and I think it was a good introduction.
Hannah is one of my favorite characters. I am quite baffled as to how someone could describe a woman who basically sleeps with every man in town but make her seem so tame and likeable that I can't count it against her. I think that's the point; she was dependent on someone else for her fin...more
Sula the book was great; a bit dry at points, but - of course - very well written, very well rendered by Toni Morrison. This is my first TM book, and I think it was a good introduction.
Hannah is one of my favorite characters. I am quite baffled as to how someone could describe a woman who basically sleeps with every man in town but make her seem so tame and likeable that I can't count it against her. I think that's the point; she was dependent on someone else for her fin...more
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In Sula written by Toni Morrison, the main characters Sula, and Nel became best friends when they were little kids because their parents Hannah Peace, Helene Wright, and Wiley Wright really didn’t like each other because Nel's mother says "she is sooty"(19). Also in the book, Sula and Nel came across by some trouble with a group of boys that always bothers them when they take a certain path to go home. Until one day Sula was tired of the boys bothering them that she takes a knife fro...more
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Read in March, 2008
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The Book Sula was a splendid piece of writing by Toni Morrison that demonstrates the adversity of two young Black females and what they go through in the South in the early to mid 1900’s. Sula was a well thought out character, which is characterize as being spontaneous and aggressive, demonstrates the definition of her birthmark in various ways from being a rose to a lizard, to her mother’s ashes. She stands up for what she feels is right by cutting the tip of her finger to scare four Irish ...more
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Read in February, 2008
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Mr. Conrickrecommends it for: anyone
Sula by Toni Morrison tells a story how two girls grew up to become women. They too became something worse than enemies,but their friendship ended in a unforgivable betrayal. I learned from this book that no one can buy friendship, and so Sula could not. Nel was getting married with Jude,everyone was happy including Sula and in her own words she said"I could not be more happy for her, I wanted to be her bridesmaid". Nel got married and smiling for the first time, but then one da...more
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First I would like to start off saying that I enjoyed reading Sula. I thought it was going to be boring and I wouldn’t be able to read it so I would have to go on spark notes, but I didn’t have to resort to that. This book was a little hard in the beginning but Toni Morrison is a great author and helps readers like me understand what’s happening along the way. Sula Peace one of the protagonist in this novel is a very unique person. If you read this book you would think she was obdurate an...more
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Read in March, 2008
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Sula written by Toni Morrison was taken place in Medellion and the Bottom in Ohio from 1919 and 1965. Sula is about two girls named Sula Peace and Nel Wright. Sula and Nel become the best of friends during their childhood enduring dome tragedies such as Sula accidentally knocking a boy named Chicken Little into a pond where he drowns, Sula’s mother burns to death right in front of Sula who does nothing to help her. Sula is a book that has friendship in it like the friendship between Nel and Su...more
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Read in April, 2008
recommended to Jessica by:
Morgan Kennedyrecommends it for: someone who needs a good hot-chocolate-and-sitting-by-the-fire book, Toni Morrison fans
I received this book from one of my best read friends, who always gives me amazing, intellectual books which I always find myself setting aside to read some trashy fantasy novel.
But this time I knew what I would be in for, since I have loved Toni Morrison since I read her Nobel Acceptance speech, and was permanently hooked after reading _Song of Solomon_ and was able to start it.
I said in my initial review that Sula felt limp. In hindsight, perhaps it is merely a calmer story than I wa...more
But this time I knew what I would be in for, since I have loved Toni Morrison since I read her Nobel Acceptance speech, and was permanently hooked after reading _Song of Solomon_ and was able to start it.
I said in my initial review that Sula felt limp. In hindsight, perhaps it is merely a calmer story than I wa...more
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Read in February, 2008
Sula's life and relationship
Sula was written by Toni Morrison, the genera is a fictional novel and takes place in Medallion. This book is about two girls Sula Peace and Nel Wright who live in the bottom which the white man handed to the blacks to live in the bottom had farming issues once it rained all crops which was planted flow to the valley where the whites lived and refuse to allow blacks into their new civilization. Sula is a girl who was born with a birthmark over h...more
Sula was written by Toni Morrison, the genera is a fictional novel and takes place in Medallion. This book is about two girls Sula Peace and Nel Wright who live in the bottom which the white man handed to the blacks to live in the bottom had farming issues once it rained all crops which was planted flow to the valley where the whites lived and refuse to allow blacks into their new civilization. Sula is a girl who was born with a birthmark over h...more
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Read in June, 2008
Toni Morrison is a brilliant author, I think it would be hard to argue otherwise. And I imagine her Nobel Prize is well deserved. (Can you feel a "but" coming? Here it is…) But, I didn't enjoy this book.
I would draw a parallel to classical music. I have heard many classical pieces written in the 20th century, which I disliked. I found many to be discordant. But it is simply a matter of taste. Some of these works have been very highly praised for their originality and creativity ...more
I would draw a parallel to classical music. I have heard many classical pieces written in the 20th century, which I disliked. I found many to be discordant. But it is simply a matter of taste. Some of these works have been very highly praised for their originality and creativity ...more
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Every so often, I pick up another Toni Morrison and try to figure out what everyone else loves and I'm missing. Every time I do, I finish the book in a fairly disturbed frame of mind and wander around for days looking suspiciously at everyone I see. It's not that I think her works aren't well-written; in truth, the very fact that I find them so disturbing is a testament to their efficacy. The plain and simple truth is that I just can't enjoy them. And I don't feel transcendent and think, &qu...more
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Read in March, 2008
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Read in February, 2008
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This novel was one to be remembered. Toni Morrison really caught many readers attention with this piece of literature by depicting on events in this book that are similar and repeated through history, present, and that will continue through the future. The characters are relative, by the way Morrison tells each individuals story through their perspective and the perspective of others really gives the reader a first-hand, as-if-you-were-there feeling. Her sense of reality grabs the reader by the...more
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Sula by Toni Morrison is about two girls growing up in a town in Ohio best known as the Bottom. Growing up very close to one another, does not help them as one would think, expand and strengthen there relationship as they become older. Becoming older and more aware of the society around them, they both start to separate further apart from one another. The main character Sula, betrays her best friend Nel in one of the worst possible ways one can ever think of. Sula’s past was interesting but ...more
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Sula by Toni Morrison is a phenomenal novel about two Young girls and how they grow up in different environments. Sula Peace (one of the main protagonists) is a young girl who grows up in a house with no structure and whose mother and grandmother are women that enjoy and often have the company of many men. Sula in growing up in this environment grows into a woman who is a mixture of her mother and grandmother. Although Nel Wright (second protagonist) grows up in an utterly differen...more
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Read in January, 2003
recommends it for:
Feminists
Sula is controversial and she doesn't care. This is a novel about friendship in its most overwhelming form - not two women as friends, but two women as one: sharing, sharing, sharing until sharing was no longer appropriate...but does Sula know that? Did Nel?
Best lines:
1. "When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It'll settle you"
"I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself."
2. "She had been looking all along for a friend, ...more
Best lines:
1. "When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It'll settle you"
"I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself."
2. "She had been looking all along for a friend, ...more
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Sula was an okay book to read. It was an easy read. This book was about a girl and how she was treated when she was younger, and how she turned out to be when she became an adult. This book detremined what right and wrong was for me. what Sula did, was wrong. She slep with her best friends husband. In this book, the always talk about "up in the Bottom". The "Bottom" is where all of the poor black people live and the Mediallian is where all of the rich white people live...more
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Read in January, 2008
Sula, written by Toni Morrison, was one of the best books she has written. This novel deals with the life of two separate families and the friendship of two young girls who grow into grown women. Their names are Nel and Sula. When they first met as kids they did everything together. From playing, looking out for one another etc. But when they became adults it all changed. Sula became an entire different person, as she got older which Nel did not recognize. Sula had done many bad things to hurt N...more
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