In the novel, Sula, the author, Toni Morrison, uses binary oppositions. Binary opposites are complete opposites. They can be two different characters, two different feelings, just two different ideas that are opposites. Another aspect of binary opposites is that without one, the other would not exist. One binary opposite gives us a deeper understanding of its opposite. An example of this could be life and death. Death has no meaning without life, and life has no meaning without death. Thinking about how great life is gives us a feeling of how bad death is. Or, if life is bad for a person, how sanguine death is. The two concepts of life and death are binary to each other. Toni Morrison uses binary opposition to show that certain t
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