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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