5/20/2023 0 Comments Sula sparknotes![]() ![]() ![]() All of the supplies were frozen in the frost that swept through Medallion, and are useless once the frost melts. At the end of the novel the truth is revealed-the tunnel is no closer to completion now than it was ten years ago. ![]() The inhabitants of the Bottom relentlessly try to get hired to work on the project, but are turned away in favor of white laborers. For ten years the project has languished, and even got changed from a road to a tunnel. The point of the road is to connect Medallion to the surrounding towns, bringing increased trade, commerce, and jobs to both the white and black communities. 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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