Claudia says “we had dropped our seeds in our little plot of black dirt like Pecola’s’ father had dropped his seeds in his own plot of black dirt”. This simile conveys that Claudia now understands that Pecola’s father impregnated his daughter‚ comparing it to her planting the marigolds. In the next line the author uses a sharp juxtaposition
Premium Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Fiction
In the excerpt from Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively‚ a brother and sister are searching for fossils while their mother waitsaid nearby. Claudia always wants to outdo her brother‚ Gordon‚ at everything he does at their trip to the beach. Lively’s Monday Tiger illustrates that sibling rivalry gets the best out of each person involved. Lively’s use of word choice‚ tone‚ and dialogue shoes readers how the siblings act towards each other and how their mother deals with her children fighting. Claudia’s
Premium Love Short story Woman
Stella‚ the new woman in her father’s life. Claudia finds it difficult to accept Stella at first but despite Stella’s effort to be friendly to her. However‚ one eventful incident changes their relationship. The dinner party to celebrate her father’s birthday breaks the ice between Stella and Claudia. Claudia goes out of her way to make the guests realize how rude they have been to Stella. There are many lessons I have learned from this story. First‚ Claudia is a mature and sensible girl. At the dinner
Free Family
Morrison Compare and contrast Claudia and Pecola in terms of their ability to fight injustice. How does this ability affect them later in the novel? It is not hard to notice the contrast between Claudia’s method to fight injustice and Pecola’s method. Claudia is a fighter and incredibly brave. She will not let the community that she lives in destroy her life. Therefore‚ she speaks up when she considers that something is unfair and wrong. Unlike Claudia‚ Pecola is used to not getting any
Premium Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Eye
Techniques of Waste Heat Recovery Waste heat recovery is being more used more and more often today as it is becoming more effective‚ due to increasing energy prices‚ technological developments and a decrease in equipment costs. Heat recovery can be classified into three main strategies: recycling energy back into the process‚ recovering the energy for other onsite use and using it to generate electricity in combined heat and power systems. Once the system has been made as efficient as possible before
Premium Energy Heat transfer Heat exchanger
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 and Frieda. Throughout the book we see how Pecola is picked on by other
Premium Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Narrator
appears without any punctuation or capitalization‚ but with a space between each of the words. The third time the text has no capitalization‚ no punctuation‚ and no spaces between the words. The second section is a short passage narrated by Claudia MacTeer. Claudia tells us that "quiet as it’s kept‚" in the fall of 1941‚ when she was a young girl‚ no marigolds bloomed. She reveals that at the time she and her sister Frieda thought the marigolds did not bloom because Pecola was having her father’s baby
Premium Fiction The Bluest Eye English-language films
experience in family therapy with co-therapist Dr. Carl Whitaker and Dr. Augustus Napier. Presenting Issue The Brice family was referred to family therapy by a noted child psychiatrist. The psychiatrist was working with the teenage daughter‚ Claudia‚ for about 6 months. He felt that she was getting worse alternatively he referred the entire family to therapy. The family was hesitant to participate in family therapy. At the first meeting‚ the 11 year old son‚ Don‚ was not in attendance. Since
Free Family
The gothic horror genre attempts to make the reader/viewer feel a sense of dread‚ fear‚ terror‚ disgust or horror. ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley and ‘Interview with the vampire’ by Neil Jordan both explore the elements which compliment the Gothic Horror Genre. Major elements that are constant throughout the two texts are the constant search for knowledge which can be dangerous if in the wrong hands which can lead to supernatural or inexplicable events‚ omens or visions occurring‚ Humanity and the
Premium Frankenstein Vampire Dracula
Eye is a brilliantly written novel revealing the fictional trauma of an eleven-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove. This story takes place in the town of Lorain‚ Ohio during the 1940’s. It is told from the perspective of a young girl named Claudia MacTeer. She and her sister‚ Frieda‚ become witness to the terrible plights Pecola is unintentionally put through. Pecola chooses to hide from her disabling life behind her clouded dream of possessing the ever so cherished “bluest of eyes”. The Breedlove’s
Premium Blond White people Girl