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What Is Sula Evil

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As a character in a novel by Toni Morrison, Sula is a clear representation of evil. She ruined many lives and did absolutely nothing to help others. She was also very selfish and did things that would only benefit herself. Sula was very promiscuous because she used other men and stole the husbands of many wives. She ruined many lives by doing this. There were many things that contributed to the fact that Sula was evil such as that she let Chicken Little drown, she watched her mother burn, slept with Nel’s husband, and put her own grandmother into a nursing home. Sula lets Chicken Little die and she never even tried to save him. Also, she never told anyone about Chicken Little’s death. She just left him there to rot in the sun without a proper burial. Sula was just too worried about what others would think of her if they found out about what happened with Chicken Little’s death, so she was selfish and kept Chicken Little’s death to herself. From the start, Sula was cold and she never cared enough about human life and worth. …show more content…

She was just standing there and watching the women that raised her burn. She chose to do nothing when she could have saved Hannah. It doesn’t matter how old Sula was at the time, her love for Hannah should have been a motivation to do something to save her. Sula’s cold hearted act of watching her mother burn, means that she didn’t love her mother at all. Sula also slept with Nel’s husband. Nel is the only person that Sula ever truly cared about. Yet, she made the decision of sleeping with Jude when she could have chose to not do it in the first place. This left Nel without a husband and Nel’s children without a father to take care of them. So, Sula’s decision also impacted the next generation. Sula ruined Nel’s

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