Eva+Peace+Aurore-Alex+S

= Eva Peace =

**Provide a 3-sentence summary of the character's role in Part One of the novel.**

Eva Peace is Hannah’s mother, Sula’s grandmother. She raises her three children (Hannah, Eva/Pearl, Ralph/Plum) on her own, as Boyboy her husband abandons her, and builts an enormous house in which she welcomes various tenants. As a character she is ruthless, playing the role of the maternal superiority, sacrificing everything for her children and looking out for others. She has a lot of male companions, with whom she flirts and teases, without ever participating in act of love, and reminds brides of their duties to their male companions.

o Sticks her last piece of food up Plum’s bottom to get him to relax his bowels o Leaves her children to find work, and returns with one leg missing o Takes in orphans (deweys), young married couples, and Tar Baby o Lights Plum on fire when he returns from the army o Jumps through her window in an attempt to save Hannah from burning, but fails
 * Make a bullet point list of 3-5 notes (phrases, clauses -- not full sentences) that highlight the most significant points about that character in Part One.**


 * Quote and provide proper citation for the 3 most significant quotations by or about your character in Part One.**
 * 1) "With the exception of BoyBoy, those Peace women loved all men. It was manlove that Eva bequeathed to her daughters... The Peace women simply loved maleness, for its own sake. Eva, as old as she was, and with one leg, had a regular flock of gentleman callers... The men wanted to see her lovely calf... the joy in her face... she argued with them with such an absence of bile, such a concentration of manlove, that they felt their convictions solidified by her disagreement." (41 ~ 42)
 * 2) "Eva stepped back from the bed and let the crutches rest under her arms. She rolled a bit of newspaper into a tight stick about six inches long, lit it and threw it onto the bed where the kerosene-soaked Plum lay in snug delight. Quickly, as the //whoosh// of flames engulfed him, she shut the door and made her slow and painful journey back to the top of the house." (47 ~ 48)
 * 3) "Eva knew there was time for nothing in this world other than the time it took to get there and cover her daughter's body with her own...she threw herself out of the window. Cut and bleeding she clawed the air trying to aim her body towards the flaming, dancing figure. She missed and came crashing down some twelve feet from Hannah's smoke. Stunned but still conscious, Eva dragged herself toward her firstborn..." (75 ~ 76)


 * Include some sort of visual illustration or graphic on your page that reveals your take on the character in Part One **


 * PART TWO - Ching and David**

1) provide a 3-sentence summary of the character's role in Part Two of the novel


 * Eva greets Sula's return with dissatisfaction, and their dialogue with one another sours from the moment it begins. Sula, supposedly out of fear, sends Eva off to a "home for the aged" (167). After Sula's death, Nel visits Eva, who makes no distinction between Nel and the already deceased Sula; this disturbs Nel, who believes Eva confuses the two characters deliberately.**

(2) make a bullet point list of 3-5 notes (phrases, clauses -- not full sentences) that highlight the most significant points about that character in Part Two
 * **Retains ties with past, either deliberately or by others' actions; Sula's return reminds Eva of BoyBoy, Sula brings up burning Plum**
 * **Characters' perceptions (especially Nel's) of Eva change as the plot progresses**
 * **Eva's ideals stand in contrast to Sula's, but unlike the rest of the community, Eva is not driven by ignorance**
 * **Presence bookends Part Two; begins with Sula meeting Eva, ends with Nel meeting Eva**
 * **Acts unbalanced when conversing with Nel; unclear whether this is deliberate or a result of the years in Sunnydale**

(3) quote and provide proper citation of the 3 most significant quotations by or about your character in Part Two


 * "Eva looked at Sula pretty much the same way she had looked at BoyBoy that time when he returned after he'd left her without a dime or a prospect of one."(91)

"All I know is I'm scared. And there's no place for me to go. We all that's left, Eva and me." (101)

"Eva was ironing and dreaminmg of stairwells. She had neither iron nor clothes but did not stop her fastidious lining up of pleats or pressing out of wrinkles even when she acknowledged Nel's greeting." (167)**

(4) include some sort of visual illustration or graphic on your page that reveals your take on the character in Part Two