Sula By Toni Morrison Literary Devices

These two characters have the most important role throughout the story, this is important because we analyze these characters as people who live their regular lives in a regular place. Which is crucial to Morison’s way of highlighting the major characters, although there is some spotlight on the minor characters, however it is as effective to Sula choices in life.
Setting
Sula takes place in the Bottom a place for African- Americans. Its environment is poor, disgusting, uncomfortable and it’s hard to make ends meet due to its lack of jobs. This is important because Toni Morrison includes the Bottom near middle-class whites, and it is significant. Readers find out through this description of the community that the setting of the story is going
Toni Morrison highlights an important scene where “The death of Sula Peace was the best news folks up in the Bottom had had since the promise of work at the tunnel" (150). But as the reader continues to read, the community where Sula was disliked ironically were suffering because of Sula’s death. The plot of where racial discrimination is a factor to ironic devices because Morrison also brings in her characters to “have some humor”. For example, creating this story’s plot and its background was quite challenging. The environment where Sula was raised being called the Bottom is ironic likewise, celebrating National Suicide Day. The way Morrison expresses these ironic devices ignoring or avoiding the main theme which is racism/discrimination helps strengthen that the story has its pros. By this I mean Morrison claims and depicts that a story where the majority of the story suffers this cruel time era can still have its humour. This can involve characters, the environment, or even creating a suspense to the story’s plot. Knowing this Morrison builds the use of ironic devices that engages to the reader to understand more of the characters when characters use them, for example, Eva naming someone a Tar Baby releasing her “whiteness”, “When he first came to Medallion, the people called him Pretty Johnnie, but Eva looked at his milky skin and cornsilk hair and out of a mixture of fun and meanness called him Tar Baby”. Ironic devices have such a significance for the novel, it creates more of a irony in ways to show some positivity in the era of racism and discrimination. However, it can lead to negativity to express hatred towards racism and discrimination those based on skin