As the narrator describes how each Breedlove feels about and uses his or her perceived ugliness, she explains that Pecola uses hers as a shield from others. Just like the owner of the grocery store, no one truly sees Pecola, and she seems to be a mystery even to readers. Throughout the novel, she continues turning into herself, living in a fantasy world where she has blue eyes and looks beautiful. Here, the narrator describes how Pecola and her brother, Sammy, each deal with the blowout fights between their parents.
While Sammy has the option to leave the house for a few days, Pecola remains too young to go off on her own. Rather, she simply wishes the fights away. Just as she wishes for blue eyes, her station in life creates a circumstance in which she can only wish for things and not act.
As Pecola walks to the grocery store, she notes the things she sees around her, and the narrator explains how she interprets what she sees. While at home she tries to disappear into herself, when out Pecola tries to remind herself that she exists as part of the physical world. Related Themes: Beauty vs. Page Number and Citation : 44 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Related Themes: Race and Racism.
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Chapter 3. The narrator explains that Pecola believes possessing blue eyes would make her beautiful, and things would change at home and school. She has prayed But when she thinks about Mr. Yacobowski's blue eyes again, the shame returns and stays until she remembers the Mary Janes. Each piece of Chapter 9. He tells Pecola that she must make an offering to nature. There is a real sense that Pecola cannot participate in traditions, or receive wisdom from previous generations, because her family life is so unhealthy.
When her own body begins to change, she can only fear it. Her mother has not taken care to prepare her for those changes, in sharp contrast to Mrs.
MacTeer, who has fully prepared Pecola as an individual. She instead sees Pecola as an abstracted representative of a whole social class, a social class she hates, and consequently she was merciless and cruel to Pecola. While everyone continue to treat Pecola bad in every way, Pecola retreats further and further from the real world into madness. Being so little and growing up in an abusive environment, Pecola does not truly know what it feels like to live in a safe home with lots of love and support.
She blames that being ugly is the cause of her numerous problems and that if she were to have blue eyes it would solve them all. I mean how do you get someone to love you? This shows that she is not loved by her mom or dad who should be the ones to love her the most and make her feel secure. Not only does she have to deal with the hatred she receives from the white person, but also she is an outcast in the black infrastructure.
This proves that Pecola is a "total victim" because she has no way out and the only way she can be normal is to try to change who she is in order to be someone she is not. Basically Pecola is totally entrapped by everything, her past rape etc.. These two quotes show how the mothers barely even care for their daughters to acknowledge her beauty let alone their own. While parents should be teaching their children to love themselves this book had plenty of the opposites. Also their is a part where it talks about how the parents have no respect for themselves.
That quote shows how the young girls throughout the story barely had any role models to look up to so they could admire themselves. Actually, her own parents neglect her because they are also neglected by their parents, so that they have no idea about how to raise children.
Pecola assumes that the reason she is treated like that is because her skin is a lot darker than other black people and it makes her look ugly. Unable to endure the brutality toward herself, every night Pecola prays for blue eyes, because she thinks that there will not be any other way out to overcome her problem except being beautiful by having blue eyes.
She never stops thinking about it until finally she is obsessed.
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