Her relationship with Cholly deteriorated and she became the sole breadwinner in the family. A summary of Part X (Section7) in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. This family consists of the mother Pauline, the father Cholly, the son Sammy, and the daughter Pecola. He doesn't poison the dog because he's terrified of personal contact with the animal.
The girl is the daughter of the family that employs Breedlove as a servant. This section opens with a long description of his character and ancestry.
What does the title of The Bluest Eye mean? "Spring," first section Summary. She looked down on Cholly and felt superior to him. He had no ties, no responsibilities and no reason to lie or act in any specific way. Pecola never receives this kind of tenderness from her mother. Firstly and most obviously it is separated in a non-chronological fashion which makes it slightly harder to completely understand what is happening and what has happened however ultimately leads to a more interesting novel.Summary One spring Saturday, Claudia returns from playing outside and finds the house unusually quiet. Next although the book is so impeccably described it is not a simple book. However I think the key must be in the fact that as she describes everything Maureen is she describing everything Frieda and Claudia are not in essence simultaneously describing two situations without inherently saying it.Īnother literary device she uses to perfection is when describing the furniture in the Breedlove’s home she says it is “Like a sore tooth that is not content to throb in isolation, but must diffuse its own pain to other parts of the body-making breathing difficult, vision limited, nerves unsettled, so a hated piece of furniture produces a fretful malaise that asserts itself throughout the house and limits the delight of things not related to it.” Black boys didn’t trip her in the halls white boys didn’t stone her, white girls didn’t suck their teeth when she was assigned to be their work partners black girls stepped aside when she wanted to use the sink in the girls’ toilet, and their eyes genuflected under sliding lids”. When teachers called on her, they smiled encouragingly. For example “She enchanted the entire school. It was the way she pulled in so many factors that you would not have thought of at first. There was a hint of spring in her sloe green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.Īlthough the physical descriptions where good, it was something else that made Morrison’s descriptions so vivid. Brightly colored knee socks with white borders, a brown velvet coat trimmed in white rabbit fur, and a matching muff. Fluffy sweaters the color of lemon drops tucked into skirts with pleats so orderly they astounded us. Patent-leather shoes with buckles, a cheaper version of which we got only at Easter and which had disintegrated by the end of May. For example when Morrison describes the new girl in school Maureen Peal, she does so for about two pages however it felt like this was a character that I had know from the beginning:Ī high-yellow dream child with long brown hair braided into two lynch ropes that hung down her back. One thing that I found fascinating was how the author Toni Morrison was able to describe situations to the reader to the point that they felt a sure air of familiarity with something or someone in the book that they had only come across for a short time.
So far “The Bluest Eye” has proved to be both a challenging and interesting book.
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