Sula 1

"Not the town of course, but that part of town where the Negroes lived, the part they called the Bottom in spite of the fact that it was up in the hills."

This quote is an example of irony because the townspeople call the african american neighborhood the bottom when it is actually above their part of town. I feel that this also foreshadows that the characters in the book are going to struggle with many prejudices because of how the white people look down upon them.