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A 3 page essay that compares and contrasts Sula by Toni Morrison and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The writer argues that these texts are vastly different in the stories that they relate; however, they are similar in that each author addresses the nature of good and evil and how this topic is viewed by society. Morrison and Marquez, by presenting these stories, suggest that the social notions of "good" or "bad" are arbitrary and not necessarily related to the true nature of the people or events that earn these labels. In making this point, the most striking similarity is that both texts are built around the topic of death. No additional sources cited.
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relate; however, they are similar in that each author addresses the nature of good and evil and how this topic is viewed by society. Morrison and Marquez, by presenting these
stories, suggest that the social notions of "good" or "bad" are arbitrary and not necessarily related to the true nature of the people or events that earn these labels. In
making this point, the most striking similarity is that both texts are built around the topic of death. Sula presents the death of Chicken Little and the culpability of Sula
and Nel as central to the psychological makeup of both girls as they grow up. Nel reacts by choosing to be "good," but Sula, who has already been deeply wounded
psychologically by her mothers remarks, reacts by blocking off her emotions and becoming emotionally dead. Morrison states that the hearing her mothers remark served to undermine Sulas trust in others.
It taught her that "there were no others that you could count on" (Morrison 118-119). The experience of Chickens death made her feel that she could not count on herself
either, that there was no "speck around which to grow" (Morrison 119). There is no experience, from the most trivial to the most profound, that has any real meaning for
Sula because she has divorced herself so completely from her own emotions. By the end of the novel, both characters come to the realization that there is "good" and "bad"
in everyone, including themselves, and that Sulas reaction to her childhood, that is, her anti-social behavior throughout her life, was a sign of her sensitivity rather than indifference. Similarly,
the judgement of his society does not fit the character of Marquezs protagonist, Santiago Nasar, and that story, likewise, revolves around a death. The story opens "On the day
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