Professor Wesley

We haven't had the chance to really connect on the level that you and some of the other students. My experience in this class has been very interesting. We have some of the craziest class discussions and people in the class are comfortable enough to even curse in front of you. Although it may not seem true, I believe your class has helped me to pace myself when I have long papers. There has been a couple of times when I felt as if I couldn't make it through the program because all the work assigned had me going crazy. I appreciate your tough love and "no slack" mentality. In the beginning, I was thinking that college isn't much harder than high school, unfortunately I was wrong. You quickly shut that thought down! I see that you don't play no games.... none at all!!!! I didn't understand that until it was too late and I already had a bad grade in your class. I didn't feel like I was doing too bad on anything but the Sula quizzes. I will miss you though Professor Wesley, even though you did diss a song that I really liked.

Argumentative essay

We have a new essay that is coming up, and its an argumentative essay. We picked themes from the book Sula and were going to make a claim. Professor Wesley came into the class and said "I don't believe in God, we came from monkeys!" That was her claim, now she had to be able to back it up. She had to make us (the people who believe in God) agree with her. She also had to be ready for the questions that we were going to throw at her, the first one was "Why not?" In the argumentative essay you have to address all kind of people, ones that agree and disagree with you. Research is a really big part in the essay as well. You have to have research to help prove your point. The important thing to remember about an argumentative essay is that you are not arguing to win, you are simply arguing to get your point across or to change the mind of your reader. Its like you're sort of trying to persuade the reader to forget what they think about the topic and agree with you because you have proof to back up your opinion.

TeenageINFLUENCES

In todays world, our generation is said to be easily influence by the things around us. I cant say whether I agree or disagree with this assumption, because some people live a messed up life and that's the cause of their actions. Violent video games may be the cause of a few peoples killings but not majority of them. I believe the assumption would also include the thought of young adults doing drugs because they see celebrities doing it. I agree with this 100%!! Most people in our generation only do things because they see their favorite artist or friends doing it. Peer pressure is no joke nowadays. The most pure person could be apart of our generation and hang out with just one friend that smokes, more than likely they'll take a hit.

  If you ever want to hide something from one of todays teens, throw it into a book. Its a proven fact that we don't read nearly enough. We spend more time on the internet and using technology, than we do playing outside.

1965- Nel

Its been 25 years and Nel is taking the time to look back at all the things she's been through so far in her life. Medallion is going through a lot of big changes. Blacks are moving down where the whites usually live to build houses. When she and Jude split up she was left with the children, but now that they are grown and no longer living with her she feels like she has done nothing special with her life. She makes the decision to visit Sula's grandmother, Eva, at the nursing home. Eva is still somewhat of a crazy lady to me, but she's not stupid. She always knows what's going on. When she puts Nel on the spot and says that she knows that she killed Chicken Little. She pointed the blame on Sula, but it wasn't entirely her fault. I believe she went to the cemetery out of guilt. Eva opened her eyes and showed her the real Nel. Maybe she feels as if she hasn't done much with her life because she hasn't been living life as herself.

1941- Since you've been gone...

Sula is dead, and everyone is acting a fool. The people from the bottom just felt like since she was gone then they no longer had to care for their family. Since she died they believe no one was in danger of getting hurt, cheated on, or killed. I think this is ridiculous, these people should love and cherish their family with or without Sula around. Shadrack is really emotional about Sula's death. He felt as if she was his only friend. When she walked down the street he would tip his hat at her.... even when he didn't have on a hat. She dropped her belt is his house, he kept it and hung it up. That is really creepy to me, because he's a lot older than her. I think he may have had an actual crush on her, and that's why he's so broken up about her death. In our class discussion today we went back to 1940 and we were trying to decide if Nel was insecure and why. We established the fact that she is.

1940- "It didnt even hurt"

This is probably the saddest chapter in this book. Sula is sick with a fever. Her and Nel haven't talked in years yet she was willing to go visit her and make sure she's okay. That's not the only reason that she went though, she also visited her to get answers to her questions. She got exactly what she was looking for but not the way she wanted it. I'm glad that Sula didn't love Jude because it would be much more hurtful to know that your best friend is in love with your man. To be in love with someone you have to have gotten close to them over time. Nel made the decision to end everything with Sula when she asked Nel to get over it. Get over it? I would have been like "you want me to get over the fact that you ruined my happy home?!" I really hate the fact that that's the last talk they had before Sula died. No one ever wants to live with the feeling of being at fault. How did Sula die? If you ask me, I believe she died of an overdose of that pain medicine she was prescribed.

1939- Getting played

Everyone believes that Sula is the devil, a bitch, and a roach. Why? Well, because she just always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The robin plague just happened to take place when she arrived, teapot (kid from around the way) fell off of her front porch and his mother assumed that she pushed him, then there's the fact that she witnessed her mother burn to death. I would just say that she's bad luck, and never walk her way. She was going around being a hoe, sleeping with everybody's men, until she came across Ajax again. Do you remember the guy who called her "pig meat!"? Yeah well that's him. He brings her bottles and she gives him herself. They had sex in the pantry.... Like mother like daughter.  I guess he put it down cause she started to get stuck on him, until he left her. Sula felt real stupid when she found his license and realized that she never even knew his real name. Home girl was basically making love to a man that she didn't even know. He hit it and as soon as he noticed her getting attached he left her.