A passage that stuck out to me was when Sula talks about the paper dolls she had when she was young and compared losing her head and kind of falling for Ajax to the dolls heads falling off. "I did not hold my head stiff enough when I met him and so I lost it just like all the other dolls." I reacted at first because I had a set of paper dolls when I was little and thought they were really cool. I think this passage shows how much Sula doesn't want to be an ordinary dependent women and how she thought she would never fall for a man until she met Ajax. It brought out a completely different side of her that I'd not seen before. She seemed like she could live a normal life with Ajax and would be willing to. Once he leaves, she goes back into her normal mode and realizes that she could never have a relationship with a man that would be as close and as special as what her and Nel had.
"How you know?" Sula asked
"Know what?" Nel still wouldn't look at her.
"About who was good. How you know it was you?"
"What you mean?"
"I mean maybe it wasn't you. Maybe it was me."
This passage caught my attention because I always think about how people usually jump to conclusions in making judgments on whether a person is "good" or "bad". I think it's important to recognize that we all have flaws and just because some people enjoy certain things or live a different lifestyle, it does not make them a bad person. The town viewed Sula as a devil when in reality I think she had a good heart and was lost in depression from all the various things she went through. Nel was the person who's best friend seemed to have betrayed her so the town deemed her the "good" one. This conversation is interesting and gives makes the reader think from a different perspective which is why I like it.
3 comments:
I liked the conversation between Sula and Nel about who was "good" or "bad". I felt like Sula was "good" for the town because she gave them something to hate, something to blame their problems on. She also could have been "good" because she certainly kept the men of Medallion happy... I also thought that Nel might have been "bad" because she was just another single mother, alone, poor, and uneducated. I thought Sula may have been accusing Nel of being the "bad" one because she was just a plain face in a plain town, adding nothing to others lives.
I also really like the quote that Sula makes about her head falling off. It is very much a true statement. So many people dont keep their head when they think that they have come across something good. Alot of times, that means that their heads do essentially "fall off" because they have lost their ability to think.
I like what you decided to talk about in your first passage. The imagery of the paper dolls is a good metaphor and really describes the feeling of losing your head when you are in a relationship. They say love is blind, so I think that this part of Sula that we get to see really represents this saying. I mean look how independent and crazy she was before and even she can not control her emotions and her heart. I realy liked how you pointed out that she almost went normal and then turned back to her weird life style.
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