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A 7 page comparison of Julia Alvarez' How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and Toni Morrison's Sula. The writer addresses how these two authors use language within these works. No additional sources cited.
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in acts of accidental verbal violence when something is overheard by mistake. In each instance, one sees how the writer manipulates language, its pauses and its silences as well as
its words, in order to enhance the overall mood of each work. In Toni Morrisons Sula, the reader meets the protagonist, Sula, and her friend Nel when both girls
are roughly twelve years old. Both girls are black, intelligent, and dreaming of their future. Early on in the novel, two events occur which change Sulas worldview. First of all,
she overhears a conversation in which her mother says that she loves Sula, but she does not like her (Morrison 57). Sula is deeply wounded by the off hand remark.
Soon afterwards, she and Nel are playing near the river when they encounter another friend?Chicken Little. The children begin to play together. Sula is swinging Chicken Little around when
she accidentally knocks him into the river. "The pressure of his hand and tight little fingers were still in Sulas palms as she stood looking at the closed place in
the water. They expected him to come back up, laughing" (Morrison 61). This incident, combined with what feels to Sula like her mothers rejection, cause the child to turn
away from the conventions of society and to avoid even the trauma of her own emotional reactions. Morrison writes that Sula was: As willing to feel pain as to
give pain, to feel pleasure as to give pleasure, hers was an experimental life?ever since her mothers remarks sent her flying up those stairs, ever since her one major feeling
of responsibility had been exorcised on the bank of a river...The first experience taught her there was no other that you could count on; the second that there was no
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