In her novel, "Sula," Toni Morrison addresses many different themes. However, one of the themes that really grabbed my attention was the theme of death. The attitude of the characters and the community toward death is very unusual and existential. Death marks the end of the life of a person. In, "Sula," this can occur through sickness or accidents. Death is a part of life. Each character in this novel has a different way of coping with or accepting death emotionally. The first death in the book is witnessed by Shadrack on the battlefield during WWI. Shadrack sees a soldier having his head blown off during battle and running without a head. This horrible death impacts future events. The character that is mostly affected by this soldier’s death is Shadrack. He wakes up more than a year later recollecting only eight days of his hospitalization (11). When he returns to Medallion, the community treats him like he is, the crazy guy. In order to control his fear of death, Shadrack creates a holiday called National Suicide Day on January 3, 1920 (14). This day helps Shadrack deal with his pain, makes him find a time and place for his fear of death and helps him move on with life. National Suicide Day doesn’t just affect Shadrack; it leads to a terrible, ironic tragedy at the end of the novel. On January 3, 1942 Shadrack decides to celebrate National Suicide Day one more time, even though he no longer believed in it or took comfort from this ritual. While he is marching through town, people start to join him to celebrate this day, but at the end of the road the towns’ people starts to smash and destroy the tunnel. During all this chaos, the tunnel collapse and kills everyone who was behind Shadrack. Even though this death was physical and accidental, it symbolizes the hate and prejudice the community was facing. By destroying the tunnel, the people took revenge on the white power structure, but their revenge was ironic, since it only b