TBE #14

In HTRLLAP, there's a chapter about rain and snow. In this book, it is very cold and it snows. Snow is clean and warm, very opposite of the book. It seems like everyone is so cold and dirty( like the whores). On page 83-83, it's a list of what white women have. IT's all posittive things. The word "they" is repeated and it makes the sentences choppy. Is this to show that the white women have eerything and they are superior...so it's all about "they?" There's also a lot of imagery in this book. it's very descriptive. Especially when they talk about their sex life..it's kind of disturbing actually.

TBE #13

I searched up the name Maureen because in HTRLLAP said that names are significant but I don't know how "star of the sea" relates to Maureen. She is the "Star" of everyone because everyone loves her...but I still don't know if that's a connection to her name. On page 77, the girls see Mr. Henry, the guy who boards in their house, fooling around with the whore China and a lady called the Maginot Line. She's not very liked in this story and Claudia and Freida's mom calls says that she is "ruined." I searched up what a maginot line is and it's
–noun
1.
a zone of heavy defensive fortifications erected by France along its eastern border in the years preceding World War II, but outflanked in 1940 when the German army attacked through Belgium.
2.
any elaborate line of defense or set of barriers.


I'm still trying to figure out how this relates to her..

TBE #12

On page 67, the white girl who everyone adores, Maureen, asked Pecola what her name was and when she told her, Maureen said that Pecola is also the name of the girl in Imitation of Life, who hates her mother because she is black andn ugly. This is an obvious irony because Pecola feels ugly and ashamed of he color. On page 73, Maureen transforms into an evil, cocky girl becuase Claudia and Freida make assumptions because she is white. I think that Maureen is just a symbol for life. She's a girl that everyone loves but can quickly turn into something ugly. Just like events and problems in our lives.

The Bluest Eye #11

It makes me mad how three black boys harrass Pecola, and I think it's only to feel superior becuase they can't do it to white people and they feel inferior to the white people. The boys who harrassed Pecola are called the "Bay Boys," so I searched it up and there's a movie and a book about the boy who struggles growing up with deciding to become a priest, witnessing a murder, and girlfriend stuff. So I guess Bay Boys are just boys who struggle?

The Bluest Eye #10

In page 62, I find it ironic how they talk about a white girl with two baids in into two lynch ropes. Because back then, white people hung black people with lynch ropes. Also, they talked about how they praised this white girl and "black boys didn't trip her in the halls," but before I though the white peopel tripped and harrassed black people...? There's a lot of obvious ironies..or I think they're supposeed to be ironic.

The Bluest Eye #9

It's sad that Pecola questions about love because all she sees is abuse and pain from her family.
On page 57 it says "What did love feel like? she wondered. How do grown-ups act when they love each other?"

This book is also full of similes and metaphors. For example, "Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche; his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees." This shows how their father is full of anger? I think. These similes and metaphors are important because it helps readers understand the story.

The Bluest Eye # 8

On page 51, there's a song that Pecola singsm about having the "blues" like being sad. I think it's ironic because she wants her eyes to be blue, and she thinks by having blue eyes she will be happy. On the next page, there's a conversation of Pecola and the three "whores," as Pecola calls them, but I don't really understand what they're talking about because of their horrible diction. There's a lot of sexual jokes that the whores say...well I take them as a sexual joke I think. Like Marie is one of the whore's and says "Well, I was little and cute then...Soaking wet." Then the other whore, China, says "well you ain't never been dry." If this is nto sexual then I am not sure what they are talking about.