Pecola breedlove

them. Samuel has thoughts about running away and Pecola has a fear of growing up. Also when Pecola accidentally drops the berry cobbler on the floor, Pauline does not comfort Pecola, but instead comforts the daughter of the white family. Pauline consoles, “Hush, baby, hush. Come here. Oh, Lord, look at your dress. Don’t cry no more. Polly will change it” (Morrison 109). While Pecola is in pain from the cobbler burning her legs, Pauline slaps Pecola and consoles the little girl. This shows that she

link between the ugliness of Pecola Breedlove and the town she lives in – Lorain. Concerning appearance, Pecola and the town of Lorain are both on the uglier side. While they share certain outward characteristics, Pecola and Lorain are vastly different on the interior. On one side, Pecola Breedlove is constantly put down because of how she appears to be. She is not as attractive as others and the people she meets constantly shut her out because of it. When Pecola was born, her mother even recollects

1941- The MacTeers and the Breedloves. The

Eye, by Toni Morrison, illustrates in the inner struggles of African-American criticism. The Breedloves, the family the story revolves around a poor, black and ugly family. They live in a two-room store front, which is open, showing that they have nothing. In the family there is a girl named Pecola Breedlove, she is a black and thinks that she is ugly because she is not white. Pecola’s father, Cholly Breedlove, goes through humiliated experiences that shape his future negatively. Claudia MacTeer, Pecola’s

of the story, the ugliness of the Breedloves. Their ugliness is one of the main mysteries of the story and is why I feel this chapter is so important. When the narrator calls the Breedloves ugly it isn’t pertaining to their physical attributes but rather says it seemed “as though some mysterious all-knowing master had said, “You are ugly people.” . . . and they took the ugliness in their hands, threw it as a mantle

because of their skin color. Throughout the book Pecola feels ugly and does not like who she is because of her back skin. She believes the only thing that can ever make her beautiful is if she got blue eyes. Frieda, Pecola, Claudia, and other black characters have been taught that the key to being beautiful is by having white skin. So by being black, this makes them automatically ugly. In the final chapter of the book, the need to feel beautiful drives Pecola so crazy that she imagines that she has blue

Family Relationships in Morrison's The Bluest Eye “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, is a story about the life of a young black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who is growing up during post World War I. She prays for the bluest eyes, which will “make her beautiful” and in turn make her accepted by her family and peers. The major issue in the book, the idea of ugliness, was the belief that “blackness” was not valuable or beautiful. This view, handed down to them at birth, was a cultural hindrance

next part of the section is told from the viewpoint of a narrator. In this section the reader is introduced to the Breedlove family. It stars by describing the store front where the Breedloves live. This gives the reader an idea of how poor and looked down upon the Breedloves are. In their society owning their house and keeping it clean is everything to a black family. The Breedloves do not own their house, nor is it well taken care of. It is described as dirty and grey, ignored by those who pass

unwritten rule, a standard made by society for society. The most important rule is that in order to be beautiful, girls have to look just like a white doll, with blue eyes, light pink skin, and have blond hair. And if they’re not, they are not beautiful. Pecola, one of community’s ugly children, lives life each day wanting to

In Toni Morrison’s, The Bluest Eye, the stories of Pecola Breedlove, and those around her, are arranged and expressed according to the seasons of the year. Just as different seasons represent distinct phases in the life cycle, the relationships of the characters in the story are associated with varied approaches and outcomes, as well. Specifically, an examination of the mother-daughter relationships in the story reveals how these relations affect the daughters. While these relationships encompass