... loving parents. "The Bluest Eye" focuses on Pecola Breedlove, a lonely adolescent black girl in the late 1940's. When Cholly Breedlove, Pecola's father, burns down his family's house, his daughter is placed in the MacTeer house. Aware of Pecola's situation, Claudia and her sister Frieda become her friends. Meanwhile, Pecola goes back to live with her family, and her life is difficult because ... hated, but her adult voice explains how she "learned much later to worship her"." Claudia, as a child, never really understands the adoration of the other girls to love white baby dolls, but she...

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