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A 3 page essay that argues that Toni Morrison’s Sula displays this African American author’s prodigious skill as a literary stylist. Through highly stylized situations and contrasts, Morrison presents a narrative that is a study in ambiguity, which causes the reader to question the standard cultural evaluations of right and wrong, love and hate, as well as other factors. This stylistic portrayal indicates the complexity of life, as the novel insists that there are no easy answers or reactions to reality. No additional sources cited.
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narrative that is a study in ambiguity, which causes the reader to question the standard cultural evaluations of right and wrong, love and hate, as well as other factors. This
stylistic portrayal indicates the complexity of life, as the novel insists that there are no easy answers or reactions to reality. The principal characters are Sula and Nel and
their families, although other peripheral characters, such as Shadrack, illustrate Morrisons thematic points as well. Sulas family does not fit within the parameters of conventional morality; Nels family, for
the most part, does. However, Morrison forces the reader to consider any pat judgments of these characters because Sulas family seems vibrantly alive, while Nels seems stilted and trapped by
the conventions they so strenuously uphold. As this contrast suggests, throughout the novel Morrison provides contrasts that cause the reader to question conventional paradigms of morality. For example, Morrisons
account in the chapter entitled "1921" of Evas murder of her beloved son Plum indicates how her stylistic manner of prose often resembles the lyricism of poetry as she conveys
her vision of reality. When Plum returns from World War I, he is as changed man, haunted by his wartime experience and addicted to heroin. One night Eva enters his
bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum opened his eyes and saw what he
imagined was the great wing of an eagle pouring a wet lightness over him. Some kind of baptism, some kind of blessing, he thought. Everything is going to be all
right, it said. Knowing that it was so he closed his eyes and sank back into the bright hole of sleep" (Morrison 47). While Morrison makes it clear that
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