6/7/2023 0 Comments Sula by toni morrison![]() ![]() The story is organized by chronological chapters labeled with years. and the blacks populated the hills above it, taking small consolation in the fact that every day they could literally look down on the white folks" (5). "The white people lived on the rich valley floor. This is obviously untrue, but it is the story that black people told to illuminate the fact that white people's racism and lies have created this topsy turvy world in which up is down and down is up. The slave said he thought valley land was bottom land, to which the master said land on the hill, not the valley, was bottom land, rich and fertile" (Morrison 5). ![]() He tells the slave he was very sorry that he had to give him valley land, for he had hoped to give him a piece of the bottom land. Freedom was easy, the farmer had no objection to that, but he did not want to give up the land. Upon completion, the farmer regrets his end of the bargain. In the first section of the novel, the origin story of the Bottom is revealed as well as how it got its name: a white farmer promised freedom and a piece of Bottom land to his slave if he would perform some difficult chores for him. The Bottom is a black neighborhood on the hill above the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio. The novel begins when the construction of a golf course is announced, the site being the destroyed remnants of what used to be the Bottom. Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison, her second to be published after The Bluest Eye (1970). ![]()
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