Pecola

Cholly rapes Pecola in an attempt to understand his feelings, which stem from his youth. He grows up with no mother or father and as a result “he could not even comprehend what [a parent-child] relationship should be” (160). Cholly even fails to understand the role of a child in and of itself. “The aspect of marriage that…rendered him totally disfunctional was the appearance of children” (160). The absence of family relations in Cholly’s youth leaves him with a lack of knowledge on how those

This desire to leave the problems and issues in life also appealed to Pecola. She would visit the three prostitutes when she felt the need to get away from her family. This was her form of escape initially; they never judged her for her skin color and accepted her the way she was. As the novel evolved, and Pecola experienced many devastating incidents, she started dreaming about blue eyes. The approval of three women was not good enough, she wanted to fit in with the rest of society because

Cholly's rape of his daughter makes more sense. Pecola represents Cholly as a child. She is an ugly little helpless girl who is rejected by everyone. Whenever cholly sees her, he remembers his childhood as a helpless child . Being rejected by his father when he goes to meet him is similar to the way Pecola is rejected by everyone. He feels revulsion towards her. Instead of feeling sympathy, he feels revulsion. As the critic Vickory says'' Pecola is like Cholly once was, small and

Eye, Pecola Breedlove is obsessed with having blue eyes; a trait she believes would make her beautiful and worthy to receive love. Pecola “hides behind her ugliness” (39) and is shamed by her family and society for not being beauty, not “conforming”. However, the shame isolates Pecola and she yearns for her mother’s affection as she sees her coddling the little white girl in the house Pauline works at. Instead of receiving the necessary feelings of love and kindness from her mother, Pecola is instead

and child. Cholly Breedlove twice rapes his biological daughter in a fit of drunkenness and impregnates her. Pecola does not receive the parental love and care which she was supposed to get from her parents. Cholly is an absent and uncaring father. Whereas, Paulin does not believe her daughter when she gets to know that Cholly, her husband, has raped their daughter Pecola. She beats Pecola instead and makes her unconscious. Cholly’s blackness infuriates him and compels him to believe that he is ugly

Pecola was an Eleven year old black girl who feels as if being white is the true meaning of beauty to society and to herself. The Title of this Novel is ‘The Bluest Eye’ written by Toni Morrison in the African American Literature, The novel's focus, however, was on a young girl named Pecola Breedlove. And Pecola, as we are told in Chapter 11,will be raped by her father around the novel's end. The beginning states the story so that the reader can know about Pecola's story ending tragic. The Breedloves

Attention “The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison focuses on a main character in the story, Pecola. Pecola is an 11 year old girl with a growing hatred for herself. Pecola is known as the ugly girl. She has black skin and very dark hair, even her mother calls her ugly. She has suffered her entire life being tormented by everyone except her two friends Frieda and Claudia. After being hurt so many times, Pecola never fights back. She never fights back because she hopes in some way she will gain attention

Because of racism and her own personal background, Pauline neglects her family and allows Pecola to be victimized. One reason that Pauline turns out the way she does is that she always felt inadequate. Growing up Pauline blamed her foot for her constant source of humiliation. “The easiest thing to do would be to build a case out of her foot.” “That is what she herself did” (Morrison 110). In addition, once she moved to Ohio she had to contend with regional and social class barriers to norms of beauty

Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eyes is about a young adolescent girl named Pecola who made no attempt to fight back against those who mocked her or damaged her body and mentality. Pecola’s peculiarness caused the people around her to become aware of her difference, which made them hate her for the ugliness that reflected in themselves. My opinion of this novel is that Morrison inserted a society where they used Pecola as a punching bag, and a scapegoat to illuminate the superficialness of perceived

On the opposite hand, Pecola represents non-standardized tragic hero WHO continues to be a toddler way more sinned against and full of the passiveness of her surroundings than moving it. She looks vulnerable, fallible and inert receiver all the time. a toddler in whom self-loathing, self-disgust, self-repulsion and self-degradation are planted since the start of her self-fulfillment and since the beginning of her awareness of her biased and prejudiced surroundings. Like Gregor Samsa, she thinks that