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A 6 page essay that examines Toni Morrison's Sula from the aspect of her treatment of the theme of community. The writer argues that Morrison is particularly concerned with the role that community plays in individual lives, as well as the what constitutes a healthy, viable community. Sula demonstrates that in Morrison's worldview, people are intrinsically connected to the communities they inhabit, regardless of whether or not either they, or the community, acknowledges this relationship. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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community plays in individual lives, as well as the what constitutes a healthy, viable community. Sula demonstrates that in Morrisons worldview, people are intrinsically connected to the communities they inhabit,
regardless of whether or not either they, or the community, acknowledges this relationship. This examination of Sula proposes that Morrison analyzes the health of the black community of Bottom
in regards to its treatment of individuals, particularly those individuals, like Shadrack, Tar Baby, Plum and Sula who do not fit with the communitys concept of social norms. Furthermore, in
relation to the white community of Medallion, Morrison shows that the health of the black community is integral to the ability of African Americans to withstand the forces of bigotry
that align against them. Morrisons characteristic treatment of bigotry is not to dwell on the injustice of white hatred, but rather to direct the readers attention toward the black
communitys ingenious manner of dealing with white prejudice (Furman 29). Morrison shows the citizens of Bottom using humor, gaining strength from folk traditions, as well as "perversely refusing to
be surprised or defeated by experience" (Furman 30). Residents of the Bottom devote little of their energy toward complaining, but rather simply get on with the business of their lives.
However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigotry. For example, there is the incident where Helene
is reminded by the conductor that her place is in the car with the other blacks. Near the beginning of the book, Sula and Nel have the physical boundaries of
their world defined by a group of white adolescents who force them to walk in a round-about route to get home from school. The white sheriff reports that the people
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