In the start of the novel at 1919, the two young girls Sula and Nel simply start to meet. The white landowners would take the richer version of the city leaving the liberated slaves with an unpleasant life. The book takes place in ‘The Bottom.’ White landowners guaranteed liberated slaves a bit of paradise by giving them a chance to live in the medallion city, Ohio. During this time, we read about two girls, Sula and Nel as they grow up. The book Sula goes from the time periods of 1919-1940. Though she does seemingly evil things, she is still honest and prideful which makes her heart good. Sula is city girl that is completely independent and blunt. She hides behind innocence, when her heart is evil. However, the character Nel is a small-town conservative and a quiet girl. Nel and the other characters are good compared to Sula, s evil. Throughout the chapters we read how she is evil, and it displayed quite obviously, Sula, s lack of action after accidentally killing chicken little and watching her mother, Hannah, burn in a fire, show how Sula is metaphorically portrayed as evil. The author compares the theme good vs bad using the character Sula and Nel. In this novel there are many characters few characters are portrayed as good and few portrayed as bad.
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