5/8/2023 0 Comments Sula by Toni Morrison![]() ![]() The tunnel, also known as the New River Road, is an ongoing but much delayed construction project planned and funded by the city of Medallion. Once her children are grown, Eva remembers the three beets they had in their house as a symbol of the sacrifices she made to support and raise them. She leaves her kids with a neighbor for 18 months, loses a leg on purpose to collect the insurance money, and returns to the Bottom a wealthy woman. After a particularly traumatizing night in which Eva has to take an infant Plum to the frozen outhouse and forces him to have a bowel movement, Eva resolves that things must change. At one point, there is a stretch of five days in which all they have in the house to eat are three beets. Eva’s husband BoyBoy has run off, leaving his wife and three children alone to fend for themselves. ![]() The winter of 1895 is a particularly dismal one in the lives of Eva, Hannah, Pearl, and Plum. ![]()
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