Pecola

troubled young black girl Pecola is insecure about the color of her skin, infatuated with lighter skin, blue eyes, and long yellow hair. Pecola grew up in a house as a victim of violence and molestation by her father Cholly Breedlove. Her mother Pauline is also insecure about her skin color. Pecola also had a brother Sammy, who also suffered insecurities and often ran away from home. The MacTeer sisters, Frieda and Claudia are friends of the troubled 11-year-old Pecola. They often tried to protect

apparently she wants him to get married so badly. 2.“Her eyes look like snot. I don’t feel like looking at them. What do you want to do, Pecola?” (Morrison 26). Frieda is a stubborn person and has always made fun of Pecola’s eye color. Pecola is called names because she doesn’t have blue eyes as she wished and everyone is calling her ugly eyes now. Pecola says “I wish I had blue

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye begins by thrusting the reader into the cold embrace of human suffrage in the form of Pecola Breedlove, thus dramatically detailing what her life is like whilst launched before the public limelight. The sensation of nakedness is the perception of which Morrison elaborates upon as Pecola is displaced of solitude and all of her human faculties are stored into a cube for the world to refract its scornful eyes against. Furthermore, Morrison delineates Pecola’s suffering

that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.” Pecola is one example of someone who could not get passed the pebbles and failed to cross the mountain, but Equalty is someone who did get passed the mountain. Both characters tried their best to overcome the “mountain” but only one got to succeed and the other failed. Pecola faced many challenges and tried to overcome them. She was a girl who was beautiful on the inside but to other people

At an early age Pecola learns that she is not thought of as beautiful and that society does not believe that she is an equal with a blue eyed fair skinned girl. Because she is constantly undervalued and rejected, she begins to hope that one day she will have blue eyes so that she will be respected. Pecola’s family, The Breedloves, lived in poverty and in an unpleasant storefront because, as Pecola, they did not believe they were worthy of a better home. Pecola’s

person mad. Pecola in "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, has an identity crisis. She strives to have blue eyes. In a world where black, usually brown-eyed people are seen as a lesser being than the blue-eyed blonde, white, counterparts, Pecola is at a disadvantage. Not only within society but with her family and school life. Pecola has to deal with a violent, loveless home, living with her rapist father. Then she has to go to a school where she is constantly abused and mistreated. Pecola sees blue

If you can't change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou. Pecola Breedlove changed her eyes, but not her attitude, therefore, her life went downhill. Janie Crawford changed the man in her life, until she found the right one, and possessed an optimistic attitude towards love. Tania wanted to leave her partner, which is change, so that she could gain strength and confidence. How are each of these women considered strong? Pecola Breedlove is strong in some sort of way because she's been through

growing up, fear of other people, fear of life into her daughter” (129). This is why Pecola seems to be clueless about what beauty means to her other than having the blue eye desperately. None of the parental figure are inspirational to her. Cholly, father of Pecola makes her more traumatizing. Because of his disoriented, undignified past, he rapes her own daughter. Perhaps, Cholly would not have done it if he hadn’t had to go through his gruesome haunting past. He is abused inhumanly by white

Pecola Breedlove is a young, unique girl who lives in the south, during a time of fierce racism and prejudice amongst African-Americans. Due to the discrimination and multiple events that make her an outcast in society, she develops a pessimistic outlook on life, doubts herself on many personal qualities, and experiences events that would never happen to girls her age. Pecola is notable in the MacTeer household because she drinks quarts of milk daily out of a Shirley Temple cup. This practice is

Pecola is a little black ugly girl as Morrison states in the book The Bluest Eye. In Pecola’s society she’s surrounded by a ridiculous amount of racism and sadness. If the people weren’t light skinned they were automatically known to have a miserable life or be unhappy. This perspective in her society caused her to believe that the only way she will ever be beautiful if she were white and had blue eyes like them. Pecola seeked happiness and peace within herself, but with all that negativity suffocating