In the beginning of the book Shadrack's passages show many examples of containment. For example, Shadrack at the beginning with the meal tray "divided into three triangles." He also says, "All their repugnance was contained...would not explode or burst forth from their restricted zones. There are many more examples of containment with Shadrack for example, "When they bound Shadrack into a straitjacket, he was both relived and grateful, for

Nel is another example of someone in the book that contains her life. She lives her whole life in the bottom. An example of this is when she is talking to Sula and she says, "Sula was wrong. Hell ain't things lasting forever. Hell is change." This shows how Nel lives her life. How she does not want anything to change so she lives in the same place for her whole life trying to contain everything.

Sula is the complete opposite of Nel in the respect that Sula thinks; "The real hell of Hell is that it is forever." Sula believed that hell was when things did not change and that's why she lived her life the way she did

In conclusion in the book Sula containment is an aspect of the characters lives, and of the town itself. It is a important and reoccurring theme

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