![]() ![]() Later in the chapter, the two girls metaphorically explore their inner kindling of early adolescent sexuality by stripping twigs of their bark, peeling out the exposed pulpy center, and then rhythmically digging into the earth with them to create wide, deep holes, which they fill with collected debris and then cover with dirt. When a gang of white, threatening Irish boys confronts Sula and Ned on the girls' way home from school, Sula defiantly cuts off the tip of her forefinger, unnerving the boys and dispersing them. Three events presented in this chapter bond the two girls. Nel's lighter skin is likened to wet sandpaper Sula's skin is heavy and brown. Nel's mother is custard-colored Sula's is sooty. ![]() Nel comes from an orderly, tidy home Sula, from disorder and chaos. In one another, the girls discover their other half they seem mystically tied to each other's thoughts and feelings. ![]() Nel Wright and Sula Peace have become friends, a friendship that will last throughout their lifetimes. The setting of this chapter opens on a cool note - cool weather, a cool wind, and Edna Finch's Mellow House, the town's ice cream parlor - in stark contrast to the ending of the previous chapter, when Plum died in the flames of a kerosene fire, in the heat of Eva's flames of love. ![]()
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