The Adapted Orphans In Sula's Medallion

In Medallion, as the people have kept the community spirit of the southern black since the slavery days of Bottom, they live as "neighbors" (3), taking care of each other, including even the prostitutes. They look after the children instead of their disappeared mother for 18 months (34) and the orphans. It is natural for them to cook and to clean the house of the solitary elder. All women participate in raising children and taking care of the old is a good aspect of the traditional value, which transcended from the slavery period. Eva, Sula's grandmother, the head of Peace family, represents this old value of "taking care of the other and sacrifices herself, and carries heavy burden" (Krumholz 554). She raises her children for herself as her husband Boyboy left for a free life and never returned except one occasion of visiting her with his lover and never sent any money for his family, either. She sacrifices her one leg verbatim by pushing it under the train for the money to raise her children after a long bitter trial as a form of pension from the insurance company. Since everything including economy has stabilized after her children's growing up, she starts to take care of the orphans of the community and …show more content…
Their ages and appearances, names are different each other, but Eva calls all of them Dewey, and over time nobody cannot distinguish them from each other, because they stopped growing. So this is another allegory which Morrison imposes them the images of the black men created by the white to the Deweys using the eyes and the mouth of Eva (Bouson 58). The black men also acknowledge their social state of helplessness and foolishness, they consider themselves as a "boy". Those Deweys signify the state of black males in confusion physically and