... how the white community treated the black community. 3. All of the characters all realistic. The main characters are Pecola Breedlove, Claudia MacTeer, Cholly Breedlove, Frieda MacTeer, and Pauline (Polly) Breedlove. Pecola is the main character in the story and she is eleven-years-old. She wishes for blue eyes because ... strong-minded. Cholly is Pecola's father he is very abusive towards women in his life. He rapes Pecola and she gets pregnant with his baby. Frieda is Claudia"s ten-year-old sister. She is experienced about the adult world and is sometimes braver than Claudia. Polly is ...

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... with the MacTeers. Although the audience never learns too much on the adults in the family, the two children, Claudia and Frieda, are involved excessively throughout the novel. Claudia was a strong willed child who had many standards against white people. Frieda was more level-headed but at times would act as Claudia and mock her stubbornness. After a few months of living with ... own race and family. The main theme was that of sexual commencement. The author, Toni Morrison, made many implications towards sexual experiences. A few examples are: Pecola's first period, Claudia and Frieda'...

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... blue eyes. But her eyes do not replace the pain of carrying her own father's baby. Nor do they protect her from the judging eyes of her neighbors. When Claudia, Frieda, Pecola, and Maureen Peal, a well-loved "beauty" of Lorain, are walking home from school. As the girls walk down the street, they begin to bicker. The conversation ends with Maureen ... Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us."(74) Claudia and Frieda are tortured by the idea of this "picture perfect" girl all of the parents a...

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... division within the community has been a long lasting problem ever since slavery was "abolished". Maureen Peale, the high yellow, rich black girl who went to the local school with Claudia, Frieda and Pecola is a prime example that blacks have come to acknowledge. It seems as if black people of lighter skin have better lives- just like the age old stereotype of ... Pecola, she is found somewhere crying and humiliated; can anyone blame her for wanting blue eyes or wanting to escape the experiences that her eyes have seen? Meanwhile, Claudia and Frieda who thought they were comfortable wit...

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... Lorain, Ohio, and the displacement, in addition to grinding work conditions and poverty, contributes to the family dysfunction. The story is told from the perspectives of the sisters, Claudia and Frieda MacTeer, Morrison's goes through four seasons and traces the Pecola's descent into madness. Morrison provides readers with the context and history behind the Breedloves" misery and Pecola's obsessive desire to ... ...

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... of Pecola by her mother is evident in the scene that takes place in the opening chapter of the book, where Pecola is found to be "ministratin" by Claudia and Frieda. Pecola did not have a clue what was happening to her and the reason for this is obvious, her mother did not care enough about her to teach a basic life lesson ... ...

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... flat nose, as opposed to long and thin, reflects ugliness. Morrison constantly shows that all characters but Claudia are prone to this destructive way of thinking. While describing Claudia and Frieda, Mr. Henry compares them to beautiful white celebrities of the time. While there were black movie stars at the time, he chose to use white women to depict beauty. Maureen ... ...

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... stolid towards his family and community and eventually caused him to rape his own daughter. Racial self-hatred reveals itself through Maureen Peal because Claudia, the narrator of the novel, Frieda (Claudia's sister), and Pecola all compare themselves with Maureen's beauty and they establish the fact that they are " less" than she is because they aren't as great looking or rich ... ...

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... which results in pregnancy. Described as submissive, ugly, and ignorant, she is labeled the outcast amongst the black community of Lorain, Ohio. Though Pecola does have some friends, Claudia and Frieda Macteer, she wants to be accepted and loved by others. Pecola grows up in an abusive and un-loving family. She longs to disappear from the face of the Earth ... ...

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... , their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question." (Morrison 39) In Toni Morrison's short story "Recitatif", Morrison sets up expectations and breaks them down by showing us how much we rely on limited and stereotypical information in order ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School