TONI MORISON’S SULA REPRESENTS THE MOTHERHOOD, FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE: A STUDY OF SULA AND NEL’S FRIENDSHIP, LIFE’S STRUGGLE AND ESTRANGEMENT FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD

The novel Sula exhibited the themes of motherhood, friendship and love. Along with these themes the most significant features of this novel were the conventional and unconventional life of Nel wright and Sula Peace. This paper has been elucidated the effort to unfold their deep bonding which was tested by social norms. The setting of this novel was in a mostly black town Ohio. Gradually the story of Sula explored the relationship between women and men in the patriarchal society never the less, the novel Sula was ingenious to create many strong female characters in the forms of mothers, friends, lovers, leaders and property owners.