Pecola breedlove

The Bluest Eye is a 1970 novel written by American author Toni Morrison. The novel depicts a year in the life of an 11 year-old black girl named Pecola who believes that having blue eyes would make her beautiful and worthy of the love of others. Throughout the novel, Morrison takes us through the perspectives of important figures in Pecola’s youth, including her father, Cholly, who drunkenly rapes her and leaves her pregnant. Morrison explores the psychological repercussions of a young black girl

enter the minds or houses of the other characters, the omniscient narrator moves freely into both of these areas (Bellamy 23). She takes the reader into the Breedlove home in "Autumn" and into Geraldine's house in "Winter," and she enters the minds and lives of Pauline and Cholly Breedlove and Soaphead Church in "Spring" and the mind of Pecola in "Summer." In order to make her story more convincing to the reader, the omniscient narrator uses firsthand sources, such as Pauline's fragmented monologues

view given is Pecola Breedlove’s point of view. This story revolves around the end of the Great Depression. It begins describing the family as being a poorer black family. Claudia and Frieda MacTeer have to collect coal for their old home. The MacTeer family was gaining to two new borders due to their poor home circumstances, Henry Washington and Pecola Breedlove. Henry Washington needed a place to stay because the old woman, Miss Jones, was getting too old for him to stay with. Pecola had a more difficult

1. At the beginning of the novel, When the words are connected it shows perplexity and worry which is really what happens to the Breedlove’s. I think Morrison shows in her writing that also happens to Pecola as she struggles for acceptance and Identity. Contrast is also one of the things Morrison’s powerful English show throughout the text. There is definitely a confusion between the community because it loves and hates at the same time. Also, it is illustrated in the book that black families are

The Bluest Eye describes the insecurities and low self esteem of young girls. In the book, Toni Morrison writes through the eyes of a black girl in the 1940s named Pecola who wishes to be blue eyed and beautiful. As a naïve adolescent, Pecola believes that her physical appearance is the reason for problems in her life and if she looked better her life would be better as well. Though the novel particularly describes body image associated with race, this message is one that many readers, especially

Pecola is constantly labeled as inferior due to her ugliness and copes with her sorrow by conforming to society’s label. Throughout the novel, Pecola’s fascination with white girls is heavily expressed. It is first shown very early on when Pecola admires the Shirley Temple cup. Claudia narrates, “She was a long time with the milk, and gazed fondly at the silhouette of Shirley Temple’s dimpled face” (19). Much later in the book Pecola shows her fascination with Mary Jane. She takes great joy in buying

a nine year old African American girl, Pecola Breedlove, as she is growing up in the 1940’s in the racially mixed town of Lorain, Ohio. The Breedloves are a poor family. On top of having to live in poverty, Pecola’s father, Cholly, is an abusive alcoholic who beats his wife and rapes his own daughter. Her mother, Pauline, cleans the houses of white people, and idealizes the perfection and cleanliness that she finds in white households but not her own. Pecola truly believes that her own blackness is

however it seemed that the Breedloves had it just twice as hard. A series of social problems of which African Americans were victims to during the 1940s-1060s such as Rape, interracial prejudice, and mental illness. First and foremost, it's important that I state that Toni Morrison’s real life indeed does correlate with the actual story, The Bluest Eye. Just as the the little girl narrating the story was nine years old in

often picked on and called ugly by those around her. Claudia and Frieda realize that the entire neighborhood agrees with Pecola that white features are beautiful. Pecola's parents have both had difficult lives. Pauline always felt like an outsider in her family and constantly suffers through feelings of loneliness and ugliness. She wants to love her daughter but finds Pecola unattractive. Pauline works for a wealthy white family and finds her comfort in their house. Cholly was abandoned by his

Novel Literary Terms irony: The last name Breedlove for Pecola and her family, literally means to breed and love. Meaning to produce love, this is ironic because her family did not bring love to her. foreshadow: "We thought, at that time, that it was because Pecola was having her father's baby that the marigolds did not grow" (Morrison 5). This is saying Pecola is having her father’s baby, foreshadowing her rape. Personification: “Cholly Breedlove is dead; our innocence too" (Morrison 6). This