Upon reading the beginning parts of “Sula” By: Toni Morrison, I’ve found it to be very interesting yet very similar (in ways) to a lot of the other books we have read so far. I feel like the majority of the books that we have read whether they are canonical or non-canonical have to do with racism or African Americans besides “The Great Gatsby.” This makes it seem like there isn’t any diversity in the literature that we are reading. It’s to the point where before we even begin reading a novel, I feel as though I can predict its either going to be about racism or something really disturbing like in “The Sound and the Fury” for example, how the brotherly love went a little bit further than just normal brother/sister relations; Or in “Invisible Man” when the whole ring match/electrocuting all the African Americans.
However, aside from all of that, when reading a little bit further into the book we read about how one of the characters, Eva, kills her son,
Plum. Now I found this to be so bizarre. She said she did it because he was all mixed up after the war but that’s no excuse. This really made me mad and also made me look very differently at her character. No matter how messed up someone is in the head that is no excuse to kill them, especially YOUR own son! I also found it to be very confusing with all the different characters that appear all over the novel. I feel like they listed so many, that it makes it so easy for even the reader to get confused. We (as a class) even found it hard to put together who was whose grandmother/mother, and what daughter belonged to who, between all of the female characters Eva, Helene, Nel, Sula, Hannah and Cecile; which was quite confusing
