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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Pecola Breedlove, is an eleven-year-old black girl whom the story revolves around. She is abused by almost everyone in the novel and eventually suffers being raped by her father, Cholly Breedlove. Pecola's experiences, however, are not typical of all black girls who have to grow up in a hostile society. But who is to blame? One could easily argue that it was Mr. and Mrs. Breedlove. But who is to blame for how they treat their child? The white supremacy is the main cause of Cholly’s past, Pecola’s

of the differences between the main characters’ families, houses, and attitudes toward society’s belief in a white standard of beauty reveals what allows Claudia to grow and survive and inhibits Pecola from doing the same. It is a novel of initiation concerning a victimized adolescent Black girl Pecola Breedlove, who is obsessed by the White standard of beauty and longing fora pair of blue eyes. Why does she long for blue eyes? Because she thinks that getting blue eyes means to become beautiful