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Brief Summary Of Sula's National Suicide Day

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Shadrack, a shell-shocked veteran of WWI from the Bottom, creates a day called National Suicide Day, celebrated on January 3rd. National Suicide Day is a day celebrated annually where people who wish to take their own life are able to do so without being judged or disgraced. Sula Peace, daughter of Hannah, has a quite unique birthmark over one eye. Sula tends to have many lovers, but never marries. Nel Wright Greene is the daughter of Helene Sabat Wright and is also Sula's best friend. Eva Peace has raised three children all at the same time her husband leaves her. As the matriarch of the family, Eva runs a substantial house full of boarders such as Tar Baby and the Deweys. Plum's, Eva's youngest child, real name is Ralph returns home from WWI as an alcoholic drug addict. Eva later mercifully murders . Hannah finds herself having sexual affairs with most of the men in the Bottom but has decided to not have a husband of her own. …show more content…

After marrying Wiley Wright, Helene constructs a respectable home in the black community for Nel (her daughter) and herself. Jude Greene (Nel's husband) betrays Nel by having an affair with Sula, ruining her friendship with Nel. Albert Jacks, or Ajax, is a young man who has been friends with Sula since their early years. He reappears into Sula's life once again when she is now 29. Ajax later becomes Sula's lover for a while. Tar Baby (Pretty Johnny) is a depressed man who came to the Bottom and drank himself to death. Chicken Little is a little boy whom Sula and Nel become fond with by the river, but unfortunately accidentally drowns himself. Boyboy is Eva's husband and father to her three children. He, as aforementioned, leaves Eva and his family. He later reappears but this time with a girlfriend. Mrs. Suggs is Eva's kindhearted neighbor and assists Eva and her family for the time that Boyboy is

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