6/19/2023 0 Comments Sula morrisonHelene and Nel arrive too late Cecile has already died. Although Nel is only ten years old, she is painfully aware of the simmering hate that seethes within the other black passengers on the train as they watch Helene's all-too-eager, ready-smiling attempts to please and appease the loud-mouthed, hostile, white conductor. In this chapter, Helene is taking her daughter, Nel, by train to New Orleans, hoping to arrive before the very old and gravely ill Cecile dies. He was enchanted with her, married her, and took her North, where they settled into a solid, respectable life in the Bottom. One day, Cecile's great-nephew, Wiley, knocked on her door and met the teenage Helene. In contrast, Helene's mother, Rochelle, lived in the Sundown House, a red-shuttered whorehouse, and Cecile watched her granddaughter constantly, ready to squash any evidence that she had inherited her mother's wild blood. Morrison now turns to another resident of Medallion: Helene Wright, whose first sixteen years were spent in New Orleans with her grandmother, Cecile, in a home filled with strict rules and force-fed religious conventionality, and watched over by the authoritative household statue of the Virgin Mary.
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