The novel, Sula, written by Toni Morrison, who has won the reward of Nobel Literature Prize and Pulitzer as the first African-American woman, has revealed the fundamental truth of women’s suffrage related two girls who grow up becoming middle-aged adults, yet their endings are quite distinguishing since they have developed opposite ideologies towards their roles in life. The novel was published in 1973, which is the particular period of the spark in regard to the ideology of feminism that just spreads its power around the United States. The 1970s is well known as the beginning of the Post-Civil Rights Movement Era, which is the perfect time period for Morrison’s Sula to draw mass attention. By selecting the kairos as publishing time, Morrison has extensively send out her voices toward African-American women who are still suffering from self-disvaluation that eventually leads them to a cyclic situation.

Immediately after the novel was published, it draws enthusiastic attentions and critical responses that connected to the issue of feminism, as women start coming to a realization of their self-emancipation that is a chronic problem left by history and unique cultural background. Not just women but particularly African women described in this novel, the majority of women make a choice by themselves to decide follow the cycle of self-discrimination by their gender due to the consciousness hidden inside their brain that keeps telling them they are the ones who are supposed to live under the halo of men. The 1970s is the time that the majority black people decide to stand up and spread their voices out loud with courage and confidence. The thinking of those women at that time has changed overtime under the affect of Civil Rights Movement. They have realized that there is something they need to change, and a problem left by history that damages their life and dreams should be discriminated or eliminated.

Those that are suffering have seen the truth that revealed by Sula, whether they decide to keep the same way of life or not does not matter, at least the voice has been sent out, and the concept is always there, waiting for them to find their confidence to relocate their role again. If the book was published before 1970s or after 1970s, it would not have such a huge impact in the society. Publishing before  1970s will lead the book to silence, an uncontrollable situation that the whole society has not taken this issue of feminism as a threat or even a problem to the society. Publishing after 1970s will lead the book to silence as well, since the issue of feminism has become a topic that everyone can come up with. It is no longer a secret or myth that no one feels so passionate about. It is a general topic nowadays. Either choice would cause silent reverberation, which is exactly why such a kairos of the publication of the novel has led the success of Sula.