... would have an ideal life guides her; for Pecola's mother, movies provide that same hope and escape. Claudia and Frieda find courage in the fertility of the earth as they associate growing seeds with the wellbeing of other characters. These characters create fantasies in the attempt to find comfort and adapt to their society, but what they end up finding is isolation and lack ... values on African-American women and how the pressures their presented with yields great consequences for their sanity. The important message for the reader to take away from Morrison's novel is the acknowledgme...

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