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Student’s Name: Instructor’s Name: Course: Date: Sula by Toni Morris Introduction Events take place at specific places. Such places are known as settings. The narration of each event in its setting makes it different and brings more meaning to the story. If the same story is told in another context, it might have a varying effect on the audience. Setting in most cases has a significant impact on the storyline, the characters, the mood of the story, and time. The Setting enables the author or the creator of work to introduce characters and portrays their characters to suit their assigned roles. It also helps in revealing hidden emotions in the story and also compares them to the immediate societies. In Morrison’s Sula, the setting has been used as the primary reason behind all events that occur in the story. The story begins with the explanation of how a neighborhood that was inhabited predominantly by black people in Ohio is destroyed. The author refers to the area as “Bottom." The story is a narration and gives uses the past tense to show that Bottom’s destruction has already happened. The narrator tries to make the reader see how many local enterprises in the area were destroyed to pave the way for the Medallion City Golf Course construction. The destruction transforms the Neighborhoods near Bottom from average settlements to suburbs. According to the author, a slave who had achieved a lot of feats after an agreement with his master was given the land and subsequently, his freedom. However, it got its name Bottom since the master did not want to lose good land since it was intemperate and infertile. There are clear discrimination and segregation between
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