The language, the imagery, the themes, the characters, everything in Sula by Toni Morrison, touches my heart. I want these people to win, to know the goodness in their lives, to stop being small. I want the loud and long cry of anger that has no bottom or top with “circles and circles of pain” to end (Sula 174). Morrison embraces the political aspects of his work unapologetically and freely admits that he wishes to elicit a response from readers. She argues that “the best art is political, and you should be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time” (“Rootedness” 345). Without a doubt, Morrison can do 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 modify - to expand" what is given ( 341). We shouldn't 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 anger and the reclamation of true value. Morrison chose certain years for chapter titles to make a strong political statement. The final chapter, "1965", may be about the Vietnam War. But "1965" isn't just about war. It's about how African Americans are treated by government systems even after the war. As of the introduction, the creation of the Fund occurs after the end of slavery. While researching American history, I discovered that the celebration of Juneteenth began one hundred years before this year. This is a celebration of the end of slavery. President Abraham Lincoln published the Emancipa...... middle of paper...... Chelsea House Publishers, 1990. Dirks, Tim. The best quotes from a great film. 1996-2000. April 14, 2015.http://www.filmsite.org/films.htmlFurman, Jan. Toni Morrison's Fiction. 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 women writers (1950-1980): A critical assessment. Ed. Mari Evans. New York: Anchor Books, 1984. 339-345. Morrison, Toni. Sula. 1973. United States of America: Plume-Penguin Books, 1982.