Sula Passages by Andrew Dean https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3 Post your passages here. Include group number and page number. en-us 2016-11-17 20:23:36 UTC 2025-10-29 13:16:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Chloe Burjak, Group 4 chloeburjak https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138740518 1940
“Sula Felt her face smiling. Well, I’ll be damned, she thought, it didn't even hurt. Wait’ll I tell Nel” (149).
It was as though for the first time she was completely alone- where she had always wanted to be- free of the possibility of distraction” (148).

1941
“Then medallion turned silver” (151).
“The tension was gone and so was the reason for effort they had made”  (153).
“He stood there high up on the bank ringing, ringing his bell” (162).

1965
“The good feeling she had had when chicken’s hands slipped” (170)
“It was a fine cry- loud and long- but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow” (174).
]]> 2016-11-18 15:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138740518 Daija Adkins, Group 2 daijaadkins https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138750987 1922
"Nel seemed stronger and more consistent than Sula, who could hardly be counted on to sustain any emotion for more than three minutes." (pg. 53)

"Four white boys in their early teens, sons of some newly arrived Irish people, occasionally entertained themselves in the afternoon by harassing black schoolchildren." (pg. 53)

"Sula reached into her coat pocket and pulled out Eva's paring knife." (pg. 54)

"Sula and Nel began to mimic him: "I'm a tell my brovver: I'm a a tell my brovver." (pg. 60)

"The water darkened and closed quickly over place where Chicken Little sank." (pg. 61)




]]> 2016-11-18 16:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138750987 Group 2 - Jordi jordirosales https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138751078 1921
"Eva had married a man named BoyBoy and had three children: Hannah, the eldest, and Eva, whom she named after herself but called Pearl, and a son named Ralph, whom she called Plum." (pg.32)

"Hating BoyBoy, she could get on with it, and have the safety, the thrill, the consistency of that hatred as long as she wanted or needed it to define and strengthen her or protect her from routine vulnerabilities." (pg.36)

"And it was natural that he, after all, became the first one to join Shadrack ... on National Suicide Day. " (pg.41)

"... Hannah was fastidious of whom she slept with.. but sleeping with someone implied for her a measure of trust and a definite commitment." (pg. 43-44)

"He opened his eyes and saw what he imagined was the great wing of an eagle pouring wet lightness over him. Some kind of baptism, some kind of blessing, he thought. Everything is going to be all right it said. " (pg.47)

"She rolled a bit of newspaper into a tight stick about six inches long , lit it and threw it it onto the bed where the kerosene-soaked Plum lay in snug delight." (pg.47)

"The two women did not speak, for the eyes of each were enough for the other. " (pg.48)]]> 2016-11-18 16:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138751078 Group 1-Ben/Jacorie benjamingillesp https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138751574 1919
"Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world."]]> 2016-11-18 16:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138751574 Group 1- Jack Mangel and Nicholas Sligh (Prologue) johnmangel https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138752298 2016-11-18 16:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138752298 roup 2 -Stacy Mejia, Trevion Terrell, Ty Rucker tyqwaviusrucker https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138752490 1923
"Mamma, did you ever love us?" pg. 67
"He wanted to crawl back in her womb" pg. 71
"But I held him close first. Real close. Sweet Plum. My baby boy." pg. 72
"She dreamed of a wedding in a red bridal gown until Sula came in and woke her. pg. 73
"The very night before the day Hannah asked Eva if she had ever loved them, the wind tore over the hills rattling roofs and loosening doors." pg. 73
"She couldn't find her comb. Nobody moved stuff in Eva's room except to clean and then they put everything right back." pg. 75
"Cut and bleeding she clawed the air trying to aim her body toward the flaming, dancing figure. pg. 76
"... she had seen Sula standing on the back porch just looking." pg. 78
"... Sula had watched Hannah burn not because she was paralyzed, but because she was interested." pg. 78

]]> 2016-11-18 16:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138752490 Group 1- Nicholas Sligh and Jack Mangel (Prologue) nicholassligh https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138752529 -"Freedom was easy- the farmer had no objection to that. But he didn't want to give up any land. So he told the slave that he was very sorry that he had to give him valley land. He had hoped to give him a piece of the Bottom. The slave blinked and said he thought valley land was bottom land. The master said, "Oh no! See those hills? That's bottom land, rich, and fertile." (5]]> 2016-11-18 16:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138752529 Group 1-Jacorie/Ben jacoriejordan https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138752993 1919
He fought a rising hysteria that was not merely anxiety to free his aching feet his very life depended on the release of the knots. Suddenly without raising his eyelids, he began to cry.

With the exception of BoyBoy, those Peace women loved all men. It was manlove that Eva bequeathed to her daughters]]> 2016-11-18 16:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138752993 group 4- sam tardits samueltardits https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138753298 1965
"Plum. Sweet Plum. 
he tells me things. Eva laughed a light, tinkly giggle-- girllish."

Now it seemed that she had thought was maturity, serenity ans compassion was only the tranquility that follows a joyful stimulation.

Lord how time flies, now she hardly recognized anybody.

]]> 2016-11-18 16:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138753298 Group 4 ~ Rickeyah and Jaylaaa rickeyahbonds https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138754049 1941~
The death of Sula Peace was the best news folks up in the Bottom had had since the promise of work at the promise of work at the tunnel. (pg.150)

Sula was dead or just after she was dead a brighter day was dawning. (pg.151)

The medallion turned silver. It seemed sudden, but actually there had been days and days of no slow-just frost-when, late one afternoon, a rain fell and froze. (pg.151)




]]> 2016-11-18 16:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138754049 Group 3 Stephanie stephanievelazq_15 https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138754795 1927: 
"He wasn't really aiming to get married." PG: 80
"Jude himself longed more than anybody else to be taken. Not just for the good of the money, more for the work itself"  PG: 81
"It was while he was full of such dreams, his body already feeling the rough work clothes, his hands already curved to the handle, that he spoke to Nel about getting married" PG: 82
"Without that someone he was a waiter hanging around a kitchen like a woman" PG 83
"The two of them together would make one Jude" PG 83
" That "all they want, man, is they own misery. Ax em to die for you and they yours for life"" PG 83]]> 2016-11-18 16:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138754795 salma garcia group 3 salmagarcia https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138755190 1939 
"everyone remembered the plague of robins that announced her return,and the tale about her watching hannah burn was stirred up again" PG:112

"Sula underneath some white man-and it filled them with choking disgust" PG:113

"They would no more run sula out of town than they would kill the robins that brought her back" PG:118

"as willing to feel pain as to give pain ,to feel pleasure as to give pleasure ,hers were to experimental life "PG:118

She had clung to nel as the closest thing to both an other and a self,only to discover that she and nel were not one and the same thing"PG:119

"One of the spiders whose only though was the next rung of the web,who dangled in dark dry places suspended by their own spite,more terrified of the free fall then the snake's breath below"PG:120

"love making seemed to her,at first,the creation of the special kind of joy"PG:112

"sula began to discover what possession was"PG131

"where were the butterflies ?The blueberries,and the whistling reed?she could find nothing,for he has left nothing but his stunning absence"PG:134




]]> 2016-11-18 16:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138755190 Group 1- Nicholas Sligh and Jack Mangel- Prologue nicholassligh https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138755480 "'But it's high up in the hills,' said the slave. 'High up from us,' said the master, 'but when God looks down, it's the bottom. That's why we call it so. It's the bottom of heaven-best land there is."']]> 2016-11-18 16:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138755480 Group 3 - Vanessa Silis and Damerea Hopp https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138755574 1937
"Accompanied by a plague of robins, Sula came back to Medallion." (pg. 89)

"Eva looked at Sula pretty much the same way she had looked at BoyBoy..." (pg. 91)

"So Eva locked her door from then on. But it did no good." (pg. 94)

"Talking to Sula had always been a conversation with herself." (pg. 95)

"It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years." (pg. 98)

"But he could see why she wasn't married; she stirred a man's mind maybe, but not his body." (pg. 104)

"That was too much. To lose Jude and not have Sula to talk to about it because it was Sula that he had left her for." (pg. 110)


]]> 2016-11-18 16:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138755574 Group 1 ricardohernande https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138766400 “‘You think I don’t know what your life is like just because I ain’t living it? I know what every colored woman in this country is doing.’ 

‘What’s that?’ 

‘Dying., Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.’”  PG: 143

“‘I don’t know,’ her mother said. ‘I don’t talk Creole.’ She gazed at her daughter’s wet buttocks. ‘And neither do you.’” PG: 27

It was on that train, shuffling toward Cincinnati, that she resolved to be on guard—always. She wanted to make certain that no man ever looked at her that way. That no midnight eyes or marbled flesh would ever accost her and turn her into jelly.”
PG: 23
]]> 2016-11-18 17:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138766400 Nicholas Sligh and Jack Mangel- Group 1 nicholassligh https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138766889 "The black people would have disagreed, but they had no time to think about it. They were mightily preoccupied with earthly things- and each other". (6)]]> 2016-11-18 17:06:51 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138766889 Group 4:Jeffery Blakely and Nadarius Smith https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138769193 1965:They were so different, these young people. So different from the way she remembered them forty years ago(163)




Lord how time flies.She hardly recognized anybody in the town anymore. Now there was another old people´s home. Look like this town just kept on building homes for old people(164)]]> 2016-11-18 17:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138769193 Group 4: Jaylaaa And Rickeyah jaylabarnett https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138772715 1941: It dazzled them, at first, and they were suddenly quiet. Their hooded eyes swept over the place where their hope had lain since 1927. There was the promise: leaf-dead. The teeth unrepaired, the coal credit cut off, the chest pains unattended, the school shoes unbought, the rush-stuffed mattresses, the broken toilets, the leaning porches, the slurred remarks and the staggering childish malevolence of their employers. All there in blazing sunlit ice rapidly becoming water.]]> 2016-11-18 17:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138772715 Group 4 Nadarrius Smith and Jeffery Blakely nadarriussmith https://padlet.com/deana3/xq125jqmice3/wish/138774728 1965:"These young people kept talking about the community, but they left the hills to the poor, the old , the stubborn, and the rich white folks". (pg.166)

1965: "Nel wanted to cry Not for Eva's milk-dull eyes or her floppy lips, but for the once proud foot accustomed for over a half century to a fine well-laced shoe, now stuffed gracelessly into a pink terrycloth slipper". (pg.167)

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