In the book‚ Mrs. Breedlove tells us that Cholly was not always like that. After the first child was born‚ Cholly began to change and he went back to old ways and Mrs. Breedlove became fed up with him. He began to drink everyday and they began to hate each other. She wanted to leave him and claim that he did not need her. Pages 161-163 tells us how one afternoon Cholly comes home drunk. He watched his daughter‚ Pecola‚ clean the kitchen.
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In the novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ the author‚ Toni Morrison‚ tells the tragic and devastating story of Pecola Breedlove. Innocent Pecola‚ however‚ is rejected in a very rational way by her community and most of all by her own parents. Well‚ The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ as allured these characters into Naomi Wolf’s‚ theory that the true danger to a woman is another woman. The Breedlove family as attract themselves into a world where they have all lack self-esteem. With the lack of self-esteem the
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happier versions of her life through the imaginary character‚ Jane. Pecola is a very static character who changes very little throughout the book. "Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty" (Morrison 24). The Breedloves live in a shack‚ a shanty‚ "a box of peeling gray" (Morrison 25). The house is very boring and doesn’t show any signs of a stable‚ tightly knit family unit. The house contains no cherishable memories‚ no lost objects‚ and no life. This is the dark
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maturing and growing up. This becomes the main issue in Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eyes. Pecola Breedlove‚ Cholly Breedlove‚ and Pauline Breedlove are such characters that search for their identity through others that has influenced them and by the lifestyles that they have. First‚ Pecola Breedlove struggles to get accepted into society due to the beauty factor that the norm has. Cholly Breedlove‚ her father‚ is a drunk who has problems that he takes out of Pecola sexually and Pauline physically
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(Trescott). This theme is present throughout the novel and evident in many of the characters. Pecola Breedlove‚ Cholly Breedlove‚ and Pauline Breedlove and are all embodiments of this quest for identity‚ as well as symbols of the quest of many of the Black northern newcomers of that time. The Breedlove family is a group of people under the same roof‚ a family by name only. Cholly (the father) is a constantly drunk and abusive man. His abusive manner is apparent towards his wife Pauline
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The Bluest Eye The major characters in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison were Pecola Breedlove‚ Cholly Breedlove‚ Claudia MacTeer‚ and Frieda MacTeer. Pecola Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around whom the story revolves. Her innermost desire is to have the "bluest" eyes so that others will view her as pretty in the end that desire is what finishes her‚ she believes that God gives her blue eyes causing her insanity. She doesn’t have many friends other than Claudia
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Authors Note: This paper being submitted for American Literature as a final project on June 19‚ 2014 Analytical Essay The main characters in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison were Pecola Breedlove‚ Cholly Breedlove‚ Claudia MacTeer‚ and Frieda MacTeer (Morrison‚ 2007). Pecola Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around whom the story revolves. Her innermost desire is to have the "bluest" (Morrison‚ 2007) eyes so that others will view her as pretty because that is what the white
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during the time period this story takes place. Then we have the Breedlove family‚ they are almost the complete opposite of their counter parts MacTeer’s. The father‚ Cholly Breedlove is mostly drunk and devoid of any concept of parenting‚ partially because of his horrible unforgettable past. The Mother‚ Pauline Breedlove and wife of Cholly‚ is both abusive to her children and constantly battling with Cholly. Their daughter Pecola Breedlove‚ who is often at the forefront of the book if not considered
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characters do or say certain things. Morrison provides the reader with a light-skinned black character whose racist attitudes affect the poorer‚ darker blacks in the community‚ especially the main characters‚ Claudia MacTeer and Pecola Breedlove. Maureen Peal comes from a rich black family and triggers admiration along with envy in every child at school‚ including Claudia. Although Maureen is light-skinned‚ she embodies everything that is considered "white‚" at least by Claudia’s standards:
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The Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison Summary and Analysis of Prologue and Autumn The Bluest Eye opens with two short untitled and unnumbered sections. The first section is a version of the classic Dick and Jane stories found in grade school reading primers. There is a pretty house‚ Mother‚ Father‚ Dick‚ Jane‚ a cat‚ a dog‚ and‚ at the end‚ a friend for Jane to play with. The same story appears three times in succession‚ repeated verbatim each time. The first time the text appears with full punctuation
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