Pecola breedlove

Cholly Breedlove is seeking spiritual characteristics to escape his family life. Cholly is upset with his living conditions, so he tries to burn down his house, as seen by Claudia MacTeer stating “Mama didn't know what got into people,” but that old Dog Breedlove had burned up his house, gone upside his wife’s head, and everybody as a result, was outdoors” (Morrison 16-17). Then, he can change spiritually for a short period, by the consumption of alcohol. He becomes more violent

Cholly and Pauline Breedlove, Pecola’s parents, also contribute to the girl’s destruction. Rather than providing a loving home environment where Pecola might have been able to thrive despite the rejection of the white-dominant society, like Claudia and Frieda do, Cholly and Pauline instead abuse their children and fight with each other constantly. Both Cholly and Pauline have been mistreated by white people in their lives, and both of them vent the resulting hatred for those who wronged them on both

eyes is a direct representation for her search for comfort and love. Pecola is fascinated by Shirley Temple. The narrator, Claudia MacTeer, talks about Pecola saying “We knew she was fond of the Shirley Temple cup and took every opportunity to drink milk out of it just to handle and see sweet Shirley’s face” (Morrison, 1970, p.23). This is when it becomes evident to the reader that Pecola is obsessed with Shirley Temple. To Pecola, Shirley Temple is the perfect girl and she wants to be like her.

Eye, published in 1970, is a novel born from the author’s experience with a little black girl who wanted blue eyes, an effect of “racial self-loathing” (Morrison 210). The novel explores a similar, but much more extreme story: the story of Pecola Breedlove. Pecola is a little black girl living not only in a world that divides itself by race and is prejudiced against black people, but also amidst a family that holds conflict and divisions within itself. Morrison’s novels are known for their themes of

rhetorical devices such as imagery, dictation, and symbolism to help stress her point of view on identity. In the novel the author argues that society influences an individual's perception on beauty, which she supports through characters like Pecola and Mrs. Breedlove. Furthermore, the novel explains how society shapes an individual's character by instilling beauty expectations. Morrison is effective in relaying her message about the various impacts that society has on an individual's character through

standard of beauty and power, whiteness, become agreeable and just. Racial oppression is one of the main issue discussed in this novel, it is clearly stated on how this issue affected Pecola’s life and also the people around her. It wasn’t easy for Pecola to adjust in a judgemental society of ours; since her childhood she stands for herself. Growing up in a vicious environment, Pecola’s childhood never became a fruitful one. A typical childhood memory is wherein men would usually bully her for her

After she meets Pecola, her concerns go to Pecola. She explains about each and every incident that occurs to Pecola and the reasons behind leading to those incidents. According to Claudia, the narrator of the story, not just Pecola but it was the Breedlove family members who treated themselves the uglier rather than the society. Only the difference is that they make a different mindset

Eyes” by Toni Morrison centers on a character name Pecola Breedlove. Pecola is an eleven year old black girl whom the story revolves. Pecola role is the protagonist. she is abused by almost everyone in the novel and eventually suffers two traumatic rapes.Pecola is a fragile and delicate child when the novel begins, and by the novel’s end, she has been almost completely destroyed by violence. I pick Pecola because I can relate to her. Through Pecola Breedlove’s lonely,sensitive,and imaginative she is

the argument is mostly pointless, for Mrs. Breedlove could simply get the coal herself, or demand the children get it. This is another trend in the novel: the children understand the implications behind the adult’s actions. Claudia understood why her mother scolded them and Pecola, and understood why she sang. Pecola understands why her mother argues with Cholly. “An escapade of drunkenness, no matter how routine, had its own ceremonial close.” Mrs. Breedlove takes some relief in berating Cholly during

rape happens to Pecola. The racism that is shown in the book, isn't whites against blacks, it’s light colored blacks against dark colored ones. White people with blue eyes were classified as beauty and the girls were ugly because they didn’t have blue eyes. Pecola Breedlove moved in with the MacTeers due to her father trying to burn the house that they lived in down. The house wasn’t really even a house it was more like a store that they were living in, big enough for the Breedlove family. In the