The language, the images, the themes, the characters, everything in Sula by Toni Morrison touches my heart. I want these people to win, to know goodness in their lives, to stop being small. I want the great, long cry of rage that has neither bottom nor peak to end with “circles and circles of sorrow” (Sula 174). Morrison embraces the political aspects of his work without apology and freely admits to wanting to elicit a response from the reader. She argues that “the best art is political and one must be able to make it both undeniably political and irrevocably beautiful” (“Rootedness” 345). Without a doubt, Morrison is capable of doing both. In his analogy, comparing our place as readers of his writings to that of the black preacher's congregation, our response to his writings should be to "stand up and cry and cry and join or change and edit-to”. develop” what is given (341). We should not read passively, but we should feel compelled to respond. Morrison says there are things worth fighting for in this life, regardless of the outcome. The response to a system of injustice must be rage and the demand for true value. Morrison chose certain years for the chapter titles to make a strong political statement. The last chapter, "1965", could be linked to the Vietnam War. But “1965” isn’t just about the war. It's about how African Americans are treated by government systems, even after the war. From the introduction, the creation of the Bottom takes place after the end of slavery. While researching American history, I discovered that the celebration of Juneteenth began a hundred years before this year. It is a celebration of the end of slavery. President Abraham Lincoln issued Emancipa...... middle of paper...... Chelsea House Publishers, 1990. Dirks, Tim. The greatest quotes from a great movie. 1996-2000. April 14, 2015. http://www.filmsite.org/films.htmlFurman, January. Fiction by Toni Morrison. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. Guynes, Kristian. “Toni Morrison: Sula’s Application of Literary Activism” January 2, 2013. Web. May 3, 2015.https://papaeleele.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/toni-morrison-sulas-application-of-literary-activism-by-kristian-guynes/Montgomery, Maxine Lavon. The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. Morrison, Toni. “Rooting: the ancestor as foundation”. Black writers (1950-1980): a critical assessment. Ed. Mari Evans. New York: Anchor Books, 1984. 339-345. Morrison, Tony. Sula. 1973. United States of America: Plume-Penguin Books, 1982.