A mother will sacrifice anything for her children; Sula’s grandmother, Eva, burned her son to relieve herself and him from the pain he was undergoing. Eva purposefully burning her son is the most disturbing part of the plot so far. When most mothers proclaim that they will do anything for their children, they are referring to providing them shelter, education, safety, and all the other necessities one needs to live. Eva burning Plum can be interpreted as a mother sacrificing her happiness so her son can find peace, or her actions can be construed as a mother murdering her son because she is disgusted with the man he has become. I believe the latter, in a previous chapter Eva “shoved the last bit of food she had in the world…[and] probed with
