Some history of Sula

This story is about African Americans during the 1920s when they were considered as poor and particularly this book focuses on the lives of African American women. The book enters the story from a guy name Shadrack making a day call the National Suicide Day. Sula is a granddaughter of Eva's and that family is not normal. Eva's family is rich eventhough they are black; however, there is a little mystery about Eva that she is missing one of her leg. Through Eva's family's lives we can see all sorts of weird relationships of people. Mother and child's relationship, friendship, and relationship between lovers, these relationship appears quite awkward to us that it is confusing if its lack of love or possession. so that it could be seen not realistic that the actions are exaggerated and overdone, but on the other hand the emotions in the book is so real that we can feel the characters. Therefore it is not completely magical, actually it is very realistic. Toni Morrison did a great job on showing the mood of depressing era to the audience. As Sula grows, as she gets involved to the society which is the "real world" the changes of her emotion leads us to realize how hard it is to live pure. Toni Morrison really dug our feelings from our bottom and put them into words. It made me want to read other writings of hers.