Eva uses her money to build a large home on Carpenter’s Road where she accepts boarders and takes in children.
Exhausted and impoverished, she leaves the children with a neighbor for eighteen months and returns with a mysterious new prosperity and a missing leg. However, BoyBoy eventually abandons the family and Eva is forced to raise the children on her own. They move to Medallion when BoyBoy is offered a job assisting a white carpenter. When she arrives in Medallion, Eva is accompanied by her husband BoyBoy and her three children: Hannah, Pearl, and Ralph (Plum). Sula and the Peace family descend from the matriarch Eva Peace. When the two return Helene is glad to be separated from her shameful past and Nel is determined to one day be “wonderful.” She begins this venture by befriending Sula against her mother’s wishes. Helene and Nel meet Helene’s mother in New Orleans, who did not raise Helene on her own because she was a prostitute. They experience the difficulties of the segregated and discriminatory South while traveling. Helene and her daughter Nel travel to New Orleans to visit a dying relative. On this day Shadrack parades down Carpenter’s Road with a cowbell and tells the people that they may kill themselves or one another. His concentration on death leads him to found National Suicide Day, a holiday to be observed annually on January 3. Shadrack, a veteran of war, who is physically injured and scarred by war, returns to Medallion a drunk and a rabble-rouser.
Before it describes all that existed in the Bottom, the novel is already lamenting its loss.
The narrator describes the town in which Sula is set by first announcing its destruction. Nevertheless, the novel champions the many strong female characters it features as leaders, mothers, and property owners. Set in a mostly black town in Ohio, the story explores the relationship between women in the segregated and patriarchal South. It follows two girls, Nel and Sula, from childhood to adulthood and describes the way their deep bond is tested by societal norms. Morrison’s Sula is a story of motherhood, friendship, and love.
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