The Bluest Eyes essays

The Bluest Eyes essays Pecola Breedlove is a twelve-year-old girl who is considered to be ugly and is traumatized by it. Throughout her life she searches for blue eyes because she thinks that she is able to obtain blue eyes she will be able to obtain beauty and therefore social acceptance. Pecola has no friends other then Claudia and Frieda and she is ridiculed by the other kids around town. She is abused by mostly everyone she comes in contact with and she is effected emotionally. Pecola never fights back because she does not have the inner strength for it so therefore she is always the victim. She lives in a society that says beauty is good and ugliness is bad, and without reassurance from her family right in the beginning her self-image of herself is extremely poor. Pecola is ostracized and rejected throughout her entire life and mostly due to her lack of beauty. She is rejected by her mother, the kids in her town, and eventually by society. Pecola Breedlove is rejected by her own flesh and blood, her mother. Pauline Breedlove has been rejected by society herself because at an early age she had stepped on a nail and so whenever she walked her foot flopped, but she takes out on her own rejecting by rejecting her daughter. When she sees her daughter face she only sees ugliness and this angers her, for she only wants what society perceives to be beauty and her own past disrupts the present for her and effects the way her family acts. She uses her love on the Fishers who are her white employers and lets her dysfunctional family fall apart. She does not show any of her family love and just despises their ugliness. Claudia says, It may have been nervousness, awkwardness, but the pan tilted under Pecolas fingers and fell to t the floor, splattering blackish blueberries everywhere. Most of the juice splashed on Pecolas legs, and the burn must have been painful, for she cried out and began hopping about just as Mrs. Breedlove entered...