![]() ![]() One winter day, Claudia tries to punch Maureen for making fun of Pecola, but she misses and punches Pecola dead in the face instead. Pecola gets teased at school by boys, and by the new, light-skinned girl, Maureen Peal. ![]() They are also genuinely kind to Pecola and tell her stories about love, sex, and money. ![]() ![]() These women use men for money, curse, spit, and laugh. Above Pecola's house live three prostitutes – Miss Marie, Poland, and China. Since Pecola equates beauty with whiteness, she begins to pray for blue eyes in order to change the way she sees the world as well as the way she is seen by others. Pecola begins to think that if she were prettier, her parents would be nicer to each other and to her. Her father, Cholly, abuses alcohol and her parents fight constantly. Pecola is a quiet, awkward girl who loves Shirley Temple, believing that whiteness is beautiful and that her own blackness is inherently ugly. At the same time, they also take in young Pecola Breedlove, whose father recently hit her mother and tried to burn down the family home. The MacTeers decide to take in a boarder named Mr. What they lack in money they make up for in love. Nine-year-old Claudia MacTeer and her 10-year-old sister, Frieda, live with their parents in an "old, cold and green" house. The novel opens in the fall of 1941, just after the Great Depression, in Lorain, Ohio. ![]()
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