Names and Nicknames
His real name is Albert Jacks
Who is Ajax?
The name of the town/neighborhood where the novel takes place.
What is the Bottom?
How Plum dies.
Eva lights him on fire.
Accompanied by a ******* of robins, Sula came back to Medallion.
What is "plague."
He gets thrown in jail after forcing a car to swerve when he walks drunkenly into the street.
Who is Tar Baby?
She is Sula's mother.
Who is Hannah?
The US State where Medallion is.
What is Ohio?
How Hannah dies.
What is she burns to death while cooking.
Ajax calls the girls this when they are twelve.
What is "pig meat."
Hannah asks her mother Eva this on the day that she dies.
What is "Momma, did you ever love us?".
He is Hannah's father.
Who is BoyBoy?
The city where Helene was born.
What is New Orleans.
How Chicken Little Dies.
What is he drowns.
The one word Shadrack says to Sula the first time they meet in his cabin.
What is "Always."
Sula's last name.
What is "Peace?"
He sells fish in the Bottom.
Who is Shadrack?
The city where Jude goes after Sula leaves him.
What is Detroit?
Helene travels far to attend her funeral.
Who is Cecile/or who is Helen' grandmother?
Eva said yes, but inside she disagreed and remained convinced that Sula had watched Hannah burn not because she was paralyzed, but because she was ********.
What is "interested."
According to people in town, this is the "literally unthinkable" crime that Sula commits.
What is sleeping with a white man?
She is Helene's mother.
Who is Rochelle?
The city where Ajax goes to see the airshow.
What is Dayton?
What day is National Suicide Day?
What is January 3.
Sula imagines polishing Ajax's skin and finding gold. If she scrapes away the gold, she will find alabaster. What does she say she will find when she cracks through the alabaster?
What is "loam?"
The first gift that Ajax takes to Sula's house.
What is two bottles of milk?