Sula Social Issues

Yin and Yang at balance and order does not follow that logic in Sula chapter “1992” by Tori Morrison. Social issues have been going on for hundreds for years more specificity targeting minorities. Most recently the ratifying of a law of gay marriage, women’s voting rights, and many more serious issues. Social issues in Sula describes a time of harassment, respect difficulties, and demeaning racists between black and white. Harassment is based on something one cannot control; based on race, religion, gender, and being different. Nel Wright and Sula Peace are two African American twelve year old girls that get harassed by four new boys from Ireland. The boys push and shove the girls to the ground. They not only do this because they are female cause of their skin color a feature they had no choice in. The girls decide to take a new route in order to avoid conflict with the four boys. The older townsfolk “of Medallion scorned them. The one exception was the black community.”(Morrison 528) This shows that the townsfolks favor strangers of the same color over their black neighbors they live next to them. Harassment is a crime that all ages commit specifically on two young black girls for no reason. At the same time, the two girls were dealing with respect difficulties caused by the color of their skin. Nel has the skin color of wet …show more content…
Racism is a major problem then and now the boatman is a perfect example in Sula. The bargeman first thoughts after finding the body of a young boy that drowned was that the parents did it; thought was actually Nel and Sula who accidently killed the boy. The bargeman thinks African Americans to be “animals, fit for nothing but substitutes for mules, only mules don’t kill each other the way blacks did.” (Morrison 533) He believes them to be animals with brutal tendencies. People are now more open minded than the townsfolks in