Sula’s Disrespect to Others Sula’s Irresponsibility

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d. Sula’s Disrespect to Others

Sula has no respect to the elder. In other words, she is an impolite person. It is not common for a woman to tell her grandmother that she needs to shut her mouth up and maybe one night she might set her on fire. She talks to Eva roughly, when Eva says that Sula should have been burned. It shows that Sula does not like Eva Peace. She also ignores Eva by refusing the idea of getting married. “Don’t talk to me about no burning. You watched your own mamma. You crazy roach You the one should have been burnt. “But I ain’t. Any more fires in this house. I’m lighting them” p.93

e. Sula’s Irresponsibility

Parents are the most influential figure in the first few years for the children that why the parent-child relationship is important for children. Parents can transmit the values and attitudes by telling the children to value other people, things and situations. They can direct their children to act and behave to the approved pattern they like or the social group that they are identified Hurlock, 1974 : 234-352. Hannah never teaches Sula good values in life when Sula is a child. Good values are the basic principles of personality in childhood. A good mother should be aware about this. If the child does not have good concept or a good model, he will do everything he wants. Sula can be identified as an irrespons ible person. Sula causes her mate’s death when she is eleven years old. They play dangerous game, accidentally falls into the river. Sula tries to help her but she loses her grip and her friend dies. Sula and Nel Wright leave the corpse of Chicken Little , their close friend, and they do not tell anybody about this accident. The corpse is found after four days of his 31 death p.60. Another evidence which shows her irresponsibility is when she puts Eva in the house for old folks, Sunnydale. The writer considers that Sula’s irresponsibility is the influence of her mother. She never guides Sula to learn about the good values in community. Sula does not receive love inside her house, and then she looks for it in someone else outside her house. She finds it inside Nel Wright who comes from a different family. Nel’s family is a good frame of a B lack family. Both Sula and Nel are actually solitary children. They do not find happiness in their own houses. They are raised in different ways. Nel’s’ mother is a conventional mother who follows society’s rules and she really admires the beauty of woman. Nel should obey her mother’s orders, whether she likes it or not. They share their childhood together. Their meeting was fortunate, for it let them use each other to grow on. Daughters of distant mothers and incomprehensible fathers Sula’s because he was dead; Nel’s because he wasn’t, they found in each other’s eyes the intimacy they were looking for. p.52 When they graduate from senior high school, they are separated. Nel is married and Sula continues her study in the city. Sula does not meet Nel for ten years and there are no letters during it. When Sula returns, Nel is the happiest person who knows it because her marriage is getting bored with Jude. Finally, Sula breaks her friendship with Nel because she sleeps with Jude, Nel’s husband.

2. The Influences of Eva Peace a. Sula’s Spontaneity