![]() ![]() The hole in the earth representing the opening of a woman’s sex and the clutter the girls throw into it a representation of all the pre-existing complications that impede a woman’s sexuality. ![]() The scene is read by some as an example of the two girls coming into sexual maturity. Sula and Nel dig a hole and fill it with stems while playing together. As she grows older, the mark grows darker, and when Sula becomes scorned by society, people begin to see it as a mark of death. Be it ashes, a snake, or a rose and stem, this characteristic mark on Sula is the subject of frequent remarks. Sula’s birthmark is said by all to resemble something found in nature. The fathers in Sula appear to be unified in this absence.ĭiscuss Sula’s birthmark as a symbol in the novel. Even those who stick around like Wiley Wright are not wholly present because they are frequently traveling and away from home. Many of the men in the novel who father children abandon their families. ![]() What do they have in common? What separates them? What is common about these mother-daughter relationships? How does motherhood change across generations? Sula is confined by the strict rule of her mother and Helene is shamed of her mother’s employment as a prostitute. Sula is pained when she hears that her mother does not like her, though she claims to love her. Rochelle and Helene, Sula and Hannah, and Nel and Helene all experience their own tense moments. The relationship between mother and daughter is often tense in this novel. How is motherhood portrayed in the novel? ![]()
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