Who Is Shadrack In Sula

The first character that were introduced in the book Sula was a veteran named Shadrack or private. When Shadrack got home from World War I, he institutes the “Nat’l Suicides Day.” He created the holiday as a way of getting over the fear of death. He suggested that if the people in the town could take one day of the year to celebrate National Holiday day, the rest of the year would be safer. Another thing about Shadrack is that, he was the only black in the Bottom that would say or do anything that nobody could go after him, “Walked about with about his penis out…peed in front of ladies and girls children, the only black who could curse white people and get away with it, who shouted and shook in the street” (Sula 62). In the event that, Shadrack