SULA: Containment Essay In Sula the idea of containment is used a lot in the story and in how the characters live there lives. There is the idea of containment at the very beginning of the book when the white farmer tricks his servant to living in the top of the hills therefore containing him from the rest of the people. In the beginning of the book Shadrack’s passages show many examples of containment. …showed first 75 words of 527 total…

…showed last 75 words of 527 total…evil witch but “They would no more run Sula out of town than they would kill the robins that brought her back.” The people in the bottom believed that “The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.” In conclusion in the book Sula containment is an aspect of the characters lives, and of the town itself. It is a important and reoccurring theme throughout the book.