Shadrack+Sehoon-Darren

Shadrack Summary: ** Shadrack is a World War I veteran who suffers through post-traumatic stress disorder. He settles down in Medallion up in the Bottom in his grandfather’s little shack. An eccentric individual, he establishes National Suicide Day that first scares the residents, but the weird day and Shadrack slowly becomes a part of everyday life in the valley. · National Suicide Day’s significance → “a place for fear as a way of controlling it.” (14) · Seems to have no past → no family mentioned other than his grandfather who left him the shack · House is well maintained for a “crazy” person · “Telling them that this was their only chance to kill themselves or each other.” (14) · “Easily, quietly, Suicide Day became a part of the fabric of life up in the Bottom ofMedallion, Ohio.” (16) · “He nodded his head as though answering a question, and said, in a pleasant conversational tone, a tone of cooled butter, ‘Always.’” (62)
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=Part II= In Part II, Shadrack is first mentioned in neighborhood gossip where he and Sula are compared to devils, because he behaves in a civil manner towards her. Later, after Sula's death, he feels the pressure of her loss and keeps her belt as a memento of their acquaintance.
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"...he stopped and cut on over 'cross the road, steppin' over to her like a tall turkey in the short corn. And guess what? He tips his hat." "Shadrack don't wear no hat." "I know that but he tipped it anyway. You know what I mean. He acted like he had a hat and reached up for it and tipped it to her. Now you know Shadrack ain't civil to nobody!" "Well, everybody know he a reprobate." "Yeh, so how come he tip his hat to Sula? How come he don't cuss her? "Two devils." (116 ~ 117)"
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 * the townsfolk of Medallion view Shadrack as a devil because he is civil to Sula instead of cussing her
 * Shadrack keeps Sula's belt and feels "lonely" after her death
 * he leads the people of Medallion to the mouth of the "tunnel excavation" (161)
 * Quotes by and about Shadrack**

"Shadrack had improved enough to feel lonely. If he was lonely before, he didn't know it because the noise he kept up, the roaring, the busyness, protected him from knowing it." (155)

"So he had said 'always,' so [Sula] would not have to be afraid of the change - the falling away of skin, the drip and slide of blood, and the exposure of bone underneath. He had said 'always' to convince her, assure her, of permanency." (157)


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