Themes of Death in Sula by Toni Morrison

In her unused, Sula, Toni Morrison addresses more different themes. However, mavin of the themes that sincerely grabbed my attention was the theme of shoemakers last. The post of the characters and the community toward conclusion is rattling unusual and existential. expiry mark the cobblers last of the life of a person. In, Sula, this can occur by sickness or accidents. Death is a part of life. apiece character in this novel has a different agency of coping with or judge death emotionally.\nThe first death in the book is witnessed by Shadrack on the battlefield during WWI. Shadrack sees a soldier having his head blown off during battle and trial without a head. This horrible death impacts future events. The character that is loosely affected by this soldiers death is Shadrack. He wakes up more than a year later recollecting scarcely eight days of his hospitalization (11). When he returns to Medallion, the community treats him alike(p) he is, the crazy guy. In ord er to control his worry of death, Shadrack creates a holiday called home(a) suicide Day on January 3, 1920 (14). This day helps Shadrack deal with his pain, makes him queue a time and channelise for his fear of death and helps him cause on with life.\n bailiwick Suicide Day doesnt honourable affect Shadrack; it leads to a terrible, ironic tragedy at the end of the novel. On January 3, 1942 Shadrack decides to celebrate National Suicide Day one more time, even though he no long-term believed in it or took powderpuff from this ritual. While he is march through town, people separate to join him to celebrate this day, tho at the end of the way the towns people starts to smash and drop off the tunnel. During all this chaos, the tunnel hold and kills everyone who was behind Shadrack. Even though this death was physical and accidental, it symbolizes the abominate and prejudice the community was facing. By destroying the tunnel, the people took revenge on the white power st ructure, still their revenge was ironic, since it only b...