Reading Sula was actually like reading the other stories that we have encountered this semester that would be considered ‘canon.’ Maybe then that is why whenever I have the book on my person, people are like ‘are you reading that for a class, or just on your own?’ and then make a grimace. It makes me laugh.
Anyways, it happened to be a little bit more interesting along the lines that the focus is more geared towards a female role (even though the title character Sula is not as cultured and a bit more…promiscuous?) and it seems to be a bit more action paced, with violence and sex and all that.
What really struck me was how Sula and Nel dealt with the death of Chicken Little, in their later years they were more grief stricken but it wasn’t like it was a huge deal to them. Also, I liked Shadrack because he was just an entertaining, deep character.
One thing that offset me about the book was that nearly everybody dies all at once. That is a wrath of God situation, and was just weird.
That’s all folks
April 30, 2007 at 2:15 pm
So I was confused as hell about why everyone in this book dies! Why would you write a book if you are just going to kill off all the characters? That still questions me. I found Shadrack to just we very weird too. The title, yes very much caught me off gaurd after finishing the book. I thought it was going to be some nice calm book, well that didn’t happen!