Pecola By Toni Morrison

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The protagonist Pecola faces struggles in life that forces her to change and do different tasks to make life somewhat better. The conflicts Pecola has are all minor ones except for the one wish she has, wanting to have blue eyes. Each person has different characters that stick out to him/her. Pecola, the protagonist, is the character who sticks out to me the most. She is a very weak and frightened when the story begins. Everyone who is as young as she is and going through what she is, is very hard. Toni Morrison shows her story in different points of view instead of her own. In the beginning, Pecola is very fragile and delicate; she is forced out of her house and made to live with a family friend. Both her mother and father are very abusive

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