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challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Hmmm im quite unsure how to feel about this story…it was definitely….a journey. This story abt sula and nel is complicated. These imperfect characters make it hard to explain how you feel abt them, especially sula. She’s can be so rude and self centered and unforgiving, but then you read in her pov on things and you begin to see why she says and acts the way she does. Same with nel, while she’s undeniably the “better” of the two, she still has her own faults but then you take in her perspective on things and she becomes more understandable. I’d also like to note that i can’t believe the “plot twist” of the book that makes them stop being friends is literally just sula fucking nels nigga like don’t get me wrong, its very understandable why they’d stop being friends but idk it kinda felt like they were stronger than that??? Like their relationship as friends seemed like it should’ve taken more than this to break them up. Also i find it absurd how long it even took nel to confront sula abt it. But again it makes you understand and wanna side w nel bc even when she did finally confront her and all sula have to say is that bullshit ass excuse it makes you feel like wtf is rlly problem. But thennnnnn lmao you gotta go back and think if they such good friends, why nel aint clock something being wrong w sula sooner, i mean obvi she’s going through something to where she’s bedding all these men and stooping as low as to bed w her bestfriend’s man like you gotta realise these typa signs in someone when they abt to do something to fuck up they lives and sula was showing them all bc she was at that point where she felt like nothing she ever did would matter, so what’s one more thing, yknow? Idk man but like i said, this being the straw that broke the camels back is a widdle crazy to me bc i feel like they been through sm together and even they both never felt right/always felt something was missing for the rest of they lives when they weren’t together. I think they could’ve worked something out and moved on from this, i mean for heavens sake they killed a boy together, in my book we locked in for life after that, ain’t no fucking breaking up LMAO if this book was abt girlhood and the meaning of friendship i think it could’ve done better lolll but ik its something deeper that I don’t quite understand now and ill probably have to read again in the future to properly understand but for now, this book goes back on the shelf w the others as i continue to think abt it for the next wk or so to try to grasp wtf i just read lol
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Violence
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Murder
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Violence
challenging
funny
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Violence, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Suicide
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
dark
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Excrement, Death of parent, Murder
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, War
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Sula, like so many of Morrison's works, is both raw and lush. There is an exquisite peeling away of characters and places which leaves their set-upon lives tormented and ambiguous, people neither virtuous nor wicked, just people breaking and broken. And, of course, the masses of hypocrisies which surround them meanwhile.
Images here will never leave me: hands which slip, arms which open, feet that land and that do not -- the (ir)responsibility of childhoods, the desperation against aloneness, the sacrifices.
Each of our lives intersects and encapsulates; we sublimate and revise our guilts; so too does this novel work upon us, compelling us to peel back and see up close, to admit, to understand. Sula upends our own comfort even while we weep for its people.
Images here will never leave me: hands which slip, arms which open, feet that land and that do not -- the (ir)responsibility of childhoods, the desperation against aloneness, the sacrifices.
Each of our lives intersects and encapsulates; we sublimate and revise our guilts; so too does this novel work upon us, compelling us to peel back and see up close, to admit, to understand. Sula upends our own comfort even while we weep for its people.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail