Sula
I actually like this book. I know, it’s about time right. I think that it’s an easy read but it is also hard to put down. There are however, a few things that I would like to discuss.
The author is a great writer but she put too many females in the story too fast for my taste. Until we talked about it in class I was crossing characters with others unintentionally. It was really random though how she includes the chapter about the soldier who creates National Suicide Day. I mean I thought it was hilarious and some good comic relief but it was very strange.
I love how the author just says things with a certain tone as if they mean nothing like Hannah sleeping with a groom in the morning and washing his wife’s dishes at night. Rochelle was a strange woman. Even though I think it was Nel that went on that trip the only thing that it showed was that race is a big thing below the Mason Dixon line.
My argument is with Sula and Nel. Okay a little boy gets thrown into the water. You expect him to come up but he doesn’t. Is there a reason that they run away instead of pulling him out? He could have survived if they didn’t act so brain dead. Then the girls say nothing about it and after the funeral they’re holding hands and all is forgotten. What the hell is this, an episode of Barney and Friends? That’s not realistic. It’s just really troubling to me.
April 9, 2007 at 3:39 am
Dawn, I agree with you. Sula is definately an easy read and it is also interesting at the same time. I thought the same thing about the characters. If we did not discuss them in class, I would have been totally lost. There are so many females that I was getting them confused. Since we have clarified who everyone is, I am able to understand the novel much better. And in response to your comment about Sula and Nel, I laughed when I read your comment about that! I too, thought it was so stupid of them to not try and pull the little boy from the water. They really must have been brain dead!
April 10, 2007 at 12:04 am
dawn, i definitly have to agree with what you said about how the author just jammed us with so many female characters at once and how confused i got when i first read it. I found myself having to stop so many times and re-read what i just read just to figure out who was who and which character they really were. But i love Toni Morrisons writing, every book i have read by her so far i have enjoyed so much. She doesnt make it hard for the reader to be like “what is going on here” she makes it readable for everyone. Which i enjoy a lot
April 10, 2007 at 2:19 am
Tell us how you really feel?? lol.. well i must say that i agree with you. Too many women, almost as confusing as TSATF. But you are also very right about the whole throwing a kid in the water thing. These two friends are not in and way shape or form normal. You jsut dont act like that!