Sula By Toni Morrison Analysis

Racism can be tied back to as long as the humans lived. Selfa states, “As long as human beings have been around, the argument goes, they have always hated or feared people”. The most well known racial issue is between African American black men and women vs White men. Toni Morrison on the other hand is an black American born women that is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner and writer. Her writing style is very deep and rich that full of details. Not only is her work filled with rich detail, a lot of Morrison works addresses other topics that the reader must critically think about. Morrison writes a book called “Sula” and it is about two ladies Nel Wright and Sula Peace in a town during the 1920’s called the Medallion or also known as the bottom. The story also goes to tell how the two women grew up and dealt with racism within the community. In the story there are many symbols, motifs, and themes. The theme of a
The Bottom is given to a black man who has done tedious work. The land however, is at the very top of the Valley and told to be very fertile and the best land possible. The “good white man” (Morrison 5) however, said this to trick his slave into begging for the land. When in reality the white man did not want to give up any of his land. On the outside this may seem like the slave was granted some land and given some freedom in reality, This can be portrayed as an act of racism and segregation. The slave encountered harsh environments that could not sustain a farm. This would not have been the case if it were a white man, Morrison writes “ the fact that white people lived on the rich valley floor…” (Morrison 5). On the bright side the slave is able to gather other black people and start a town known as Medallion but they stare down at the valley floor where white men enjoy their rich