The Bluest Eye #6

As I got to page 43, I noticed there are a lot of references to God. I looked back at HTRLLAP and it says that the naming of a character is important. I searched up the name Pecola but I did not really find any useful information. Except there's a Japanese anime and the orphaned girl's name is Pecola. In The Bluest Eye Pecola is also like an orphan because she lives with another family.

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The Bluest Eye #5

This book does not have chapter numbers but it has weird titles with no spaces, just all capslock. The "HEREISTHEHOUSEITISGREENANDWHITEITHASAREDDOORITISVERYPRETTYITISVERYPRETTYITISVERYPRETTYP" and the chapter after that is mainly about Pecola's family and what she had to live with. She is very unfortunate. The chapter starts off as "The breedloves did not live in a storefront because..they lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly." The word ugly is used I think to show that they were ashamed of their race. This chapter reminds me of the book, Their Eyes were Watching God becuase their diction is similar and the wife of Mr. Breedlove says, "Not until you get me some coal. If working like a mule don't give me the right to be warm, what am I doing it for?" In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the wife always talked about how she always worked.

The Bluest eye #4

On page 17, the narrator, (one of the sisters, CLAUDIA), kept mentioning outdoors. She says, "Outdoors was the end of something, an irrevocable, physical fact, defining and complenenting our metaphysical condition. Being MONIORTY IN BOTH CASTE AND CLASS.." So it's about racism..not fitting in. The diction is also casual like the narrator would say "..we listened, avoided each other's eyes, and picked toe jam or whatever." So one of the main characters, Pecola, got her period and instead of "menstruating" they say "ministratin," ...lack of knowledge. In the next chapter, the title is called "HEREISTHEHOUSEITISGREENANDWHITEITHASAREDDOOR..." and theres no punctuation or spaces..i'm still trying to figure this out.

The Bluest Eye #3

On page 12, the narrator is jst one person, not as sisters. In the second paragraph it says, "
she sings to me: 'when the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, someone thinks of me..." I'm not sure what it symbolizes but I think it foreshadows an event in the future. I also noticed that they have winter weather in the fall. I still don't know the location of this place but it's where there is racism. The characters in this story are not we'' educated because their diction is very poor. For example, they say things like, "she wasn't never right."

The Bluest Eye #2

on the third page, the narrator starts off as "we" and I thought the story is told as a third person omniscient. i think there's significance in the lines: "...the marigolds did not grow...if we planted seeds, and said the right words over them, they would blossom, and everything would be all right." On page 5, it tells us that "we", as in the narrators, are sisters. On page 5, I also found personification and a simile in the line, "nuns go by as lust, and druken men sober eyes sing in the lobby of the greek hotel." I'm not sure where the setting is but in HTRLLAP, it says that the setting is very important. As I read further, I will find out.

The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison) #1

Reading the first page, I realized that the sentences were really choppy, short sentences like "Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door." I first thought that maybe it's a little kid telling the story? Maybe this is stream of consciousness from when the speaker was young? I also noticed that it was full of anaphora. For example, See Jane. She has a red dress. She wants to play. Who will play with Jane? See the cat? It goes meowmeow. Come and play. Come play with Jane." This whole first page is structured this way. The second page consists of 2 paragraphs which are exactly the same as the paragraph on the first page (the same words) but the second page has no punctuation. I immediately think of stream of consciousness. The first paragraph of page 2 made me think that it was a flashback. As I read it, the tone I thought of was worried or scared. Then I read the second paragraph with no spaces and I thought maybe the speaker was telling a story really quickly because he or she was holding in so much that he or she had to let everything out. Or the spaces symbolize that his or her life was so hectic and full of problems that he or she had no time to breathe or maybe no time to speak his/her mind? I don't know what's going on...