the characters. Pecola Breedlove‚ Cholly Breedlove‚ and Pauline Breedlove and are all embodiments of this quest for identity‚ as well as symbols of the quest of many of the Black northern newcomers of that time. The Breedlove family is a group of people under the same roof‚ a family by name only. Cholly (the father) is a constantly drunk and abusive man. His abusive manner is apparent towards his wife Pauline physically and towards his daughter Pecola sexually. Pauline is a "mammy" to a white
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Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eyes. Pecola Breedlove‚ Cholly Breedlove‚ and Pauline Breedlove are such characters that search for their identity through others that has influenced them and by the lifestyles that they have. First‚ Pecola Breedlove struggles to get accepted into society due to the beauty factor that the norm has. Cholly Breedlove‚ her father‚ is a drunk who has problems that he takes out of Pecola sexually and Pauline physically. Pauline is Cholly’s wife that is never there for her
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during the time period this story takes place. Then we have the Breedlove family‚ they are almost the complete opposite of their counter parts MacTeer’s. The father‚ Cholly Breedlove is mostly drunk and devoid of any concept of parenting‚ partially because of his horrible unforgettable past. The Mother‚ Pauline Breedlove and wife of Cholly‚ is both abusive to her children and constantly battling with Cholly. Their daughter Pecola Breedlove‚ who is often at the forefront of the book if not considered
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Characters such as Cholly and Pauline Breedlove‚ who all have intensely detailed background stories that offer insight into the experiences that shaped who they would later become as adults. Cholly Breedlove was a violent‚ cruel man who experienced a horrific incident in which three white men interrupted his first intimate experience with a girl. During this incident
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characters do or say certain things. Morrison provides the reader with a light-skinned black character whose racist attitudes affect the poorer‚ darker blacks in the community‚ especially the main characters‚ Claudia MacTeer and Pecola Breedlove. Maureen Peal comes from a rich black family and triggers admiration along with envy in every child at school‚ including Claudia. Although Maureen is light-skinned‚ she embodies everything that is considered "white‚" at least by Claudia’s standards:
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In the book‚ Mrs. Breedlove tells us that Cholly was not always like that. After the first child was born‚ Cholly began to change and he went back to old ways and Mrs. Breedlove became fed up with him. He began to drink everyday and they began to hate each other. She wanted to leave him and claim that he did not need her. Pages 161-163 tells
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The Bluest Eye‚ written in 1970‚ is novel by Toni Morrison. It is Morrison’s first novel and was written while she was teaching at Howard University. The Bluest Eye tells the tragic story of Pecola Breedlove‚ a young black girl growing up in Morrison’s hometown of Lorain‚ Ohio‚ during the hard times following the Great Depression. In this novel‚ Toni Morrison addresses a timeless problem of white racial dominance in the United States and points to the impact it has on the life of black females growing
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Shirley Temple‚ the consensus that light-skinned Maureen is cuter than the other black girls‚ the idealization of white beauty in the movies‚ and Pauline Breedlove’s preference for the little white girl she works for over her daughter. Adult women‚ having learned to hate the blackness of their own bodies‚ take this hatred out on their children—Mrs. Breedlove shares the conviction that Pecola is ugly‚ and lighter-skinned Geraldine curses Pecola’s blackness. Claudia remains free from this worship of whiteness
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community. In this novel‚ characters begin to internalize the racism presented by these people‚ and feel inferior. The stereotype torments them mentally‚ and in some cases‚ to the point of insanity. The character most affected by racism is Pecola Breedlove. Pecola Breedlove’s character is defined by several different types of racism. It is present in her family‚ especially her parents‚ from school‚ and from society‚ where white children are considered to be “more important” than black children. Pecola
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Pecola is staying with the Mcteer family because her house was burned down by her father and he ended up in jail. Neither of her parents bothered to check on her after Cholly was released from jail which shows the problems that lie in the Breedlove family. Toni Morrison shows us throughout the novel the toxic relationship that she has with her parents and reveals to us how that conflict began Pecola’s self-hatred began and how it climaxed into insanity. Pecola’s self hatred is mostly
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