Claudia And Frieda Quotes

To me this quote represents how Claudia anticipates the events that the book will give us the reader’s attention to, most notably Pecola’s pregnancy. She remembers that she and Frieda pointed fingers at each other for failing to grow the plants one summer, but now she thinks if the earth itself was a danger to them, a more radical possibility.
I believe this quote represents the levels of Pecola’s desire, she does not want blue eyes because they apply to the standards the whites have applied, but because she wishes to obtain different sights and pictures, as if changing eye color will change reality. She feels that changing her eye color will change her perspective of life/ the way she is viewed.
To me this quote is is just very simple. I think it’s just a very summed up description of Claudia and Frieda’s ethos as one. The MacTeer girls take an active stance against whatever they believe is threatening them; it could be a white doll, boys mocking Pecola, Henry’s molestation of Frieda, to the community’s rejection of Pecola.
Here, she transforms Pecola into a sight of beauty and suffering that marks all human life and into a more specific symbol of the hopes and fears of her community. The community has dumped all of its “waste” on Pecola because she is a convenient like stress reliever. They threw their problems out on her.
This quote is really just to describe Claudia’s attempts to tell us what her story relates upon. It describes love as a potential force of damage, following the assumption that Cholly was the only person who cared for Pecola “enough to touch her.” If love and rape cannot be differed, then we have entered a world in which love itself is