The Explanation Of Death And Death In Plum's Death

On seeing Plum’s struggle to give up his last breath, she decides to ease his pain by killing. At this juncture, it is important to recollect an incident which happened when Plum was a small kid. He was crying for quite long time out of stomach pain, by then, Eva was struggling hard to find out the reason for his incessant crying. She did this and that to soothe his pain. At last, she finds it by chance that he was suffering from constipation. She pokes her finger into his anal and removes the stools that had blocked free motion. Then he stops crying and Eva feels relaxed.
Deep in its darkness and freezing stench she squatted down, turned the baby over on her knees, exposed his buttocks and shoved the last bit of food she had in the world(

She kills and frees Plum, as she cannot free him from his addiction. In his childhood, she has freed him from severe physical pain at the expense of her own discomfort. In his adulthood, she frees him from his painful life, at the expense of the pain she has to undergo in killing her son. Eva preserves Plum in death, as she has to do the best for him, and cannot see him in pain. Morrison describes Eva’s act of dousing Plum in kerosene, in a ritualistic way, as if it were “Some kind of baptism, some kind of blessing”(Sula 47). The ritualistic terms used by Morrison connate to Eva’s maternal love. Eva can be viewed as a destroyer after the death of Plum, which is fallacious. In fact, death liberates Plum from his painful life. This act of Eva has to be seen as mercy killing or euthanasia, rather than foul

According to the narrator of Sula, Sula’s meeting with Nel is “fortune” because the two girls find a soul mate in one another. Both of them are “daughters of distant mothers and incomprehensible fathers”(Sula 52). Sula and Nel lack the essential affection in their relationships with their mothers and this affection cannot be found in the relationship with Sula’s and Nel’s fathers either because Sula’s father is dead and Nel’s father works at sea and is absent from home most of the time. As both girls do not find the support they need in their relationship with their mothers, Sula and Nel support each other and understand what the other one needs. The fact that neither of the girls can look for support in their families elevates the significance of their bond. Thanks to Sula, Nel is able to escape from her strict parents and in return, Nel represents a centre for Sula a centre which Sula does not find in her family because she feels unloved. With Sula, Nel is free to express herself, which is something she cannot do when she is at home because there she must be the obedient