Sula-part 2

"In spite of their fear, they reacted to an oppressive oddity, or what they called evil days, with an acceptance that bordered on welcome. Such evil must be avoided, they felt, and precautions must naturally be taken to protect themselves from it. But they let it run its course, fulfill itself, and never invented ways either to alter it, annihilate it or to prevent its happening again." I thought it was very interesting that with Sula's return, Morrison wrote quite a bit about evil. I was also struck that Morrison used such dark words and said the people were basically welcoming the evil. What I liked the most about the passage is that she brings up the idea that people can prevent or do something about wrongs that are done to them in their lifetime. It makes me think of people who blame all of their problems on others and do nothing about it themselves or take any action to keep it from happening again in the future.
I had mixed feelings after reading Sula's death scene. One thing I noticed is that Morrison wrote that Sula's pain at one point was a "kind of burning" as well as mentioning "a rain scent and would know the water was near, and she would curl into its heavy softness, and it would envelop her, carry her, and wash her tired flesh away." I instantly saw these as references to the way she had seen others in the story die. The scene also kind of left me feeling bad for her and Nel. Nel, because she didn't get the answers she so desperately wanted, and Sula because she came to a realization that she "never meant anything" and died alone.