When the protagonist and her best friend are harassed by a group of Irish boys, she cuts off the tip of her own finger with a knife and asks them what they supposed she could do to them if she could do that to herself.
When the protagonist and her best friend are harassed by a group of Irish boys, she cuts off the tip of her own finger with a knife and asks them what they supposed she could do to them if she could do that to herself. Her confidence in herself and the world is shaken both by her rejection by the handsome Ajax and a childhood accident in which she caused the boy Chicken Little to drown. The only friends she has in the black community known as The Bottom is the outcast Shadrack and her inseparable childhood friend Nel Wright. FTP, what is this novel named for the protagonist and written by Toni Morrison?
When the protagonist and her best friend are harassed by a group of Irish boys, she cuts off the tip of her own finger with a knife and asks them what they supposed she could do to them if she could do that to herself.
Sula