Themes of Death in Sula by Toni Morrison

In her novel, Sula, Toni Morrison addresses many unlike themes. However, one of the themes that re all(prenominal)y grabbed my watchfulness was the theme of closing. The attitude of the credits and the community toward demolition is very peculiar and existential. Death marks the discontinue of the life of a person. In, Sula, this flock occur through call forion or accidents. Death is a part of life. Each character in this novel has a different way of header with or accepting death emotionally.\nThe first death in the book is witnessed by Shadrack on the battlefield during WWI. Shadrack sees a spend having his head blown cancelled during battle and running without a head. This horrible death impacts prospective events. The character that is mostly touch on by this soldiers death is Shadrack. He wakes up more than a year later recollecting only eightsome twenty-four hour periods of his hospitalization (11). When he returns to Medallion, the community treats him like he is, the crazy guy. In evidence to control his concern of death, Shadrack creates a holiday called National felo-de-se twenty-four hours on January 3, 1920 (14). This day helps Shadrack deal with his pain, makes him find a time and place for his fear of death and helps him move on with life.\nNational self-annihilation Day doesnt just affect Shadrack; it leads to a terrible, ironic catastrophe at the end of the novel. On January 3, 1942 Shadrack decides to celebrate National Suicide Day one more time, even though he no longer believed in it or took comfort from this ritual. maculation he is marching through town, mass start to meet him to celebrate this day, but at the end of the road the towns throng starts to smash and destroy the tunnel. During all this chaos, the tunnel collapse and kills everyone who was back end Shadrack. Even though this death was physical and accidental, it symbolizes the hate and prejudice the community was facing. By destroying the tunnel, t he people took visit on the duster power structure, but their revenge was ironic, since it only b...