In the novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, the reader is introduced to Pecola Breedlove a girl that has been tortured and ridiculed throughout her young life. Pecola has no friends and is ridiculed by her classmates. As if this weren’t enough she is also abused and rejected by her family. Pecola Breedlove is the protagonist in this story due to the way that her character transforms throughout the story.
Pecola Breedlove doesn’t have friends and and is ridicule by other kids her age. She is a poor, Black, little girl that was trying to survive in a world full of racism. She was living in an era where light skin and blue eyes were the definition of beauty. Pecola’s skin was black and her eyes are brown so she was considered ugly. Her classmates used her looks to tease each other as it states in the text where children would say, “Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove! Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove!” (Morrison 46). They also used of chants like, “Black e mos, black e mos, ya daddy sleep naked” (Morrison 65) to point out the “deformity” of her looks. Penola didn’t fight back because she, herself, felt that she was ugly and thought what they said was true.
Pecola was abused and rejected by her own family. Her mother, …show more content…
She desperately believes that blue eyes can give her the keys necessary to be accepted into her surrounding society and the keys to be loved and accepted by her parents. The acceptance of these key characters in her life is crucial because she doesn’t have friends and is ridiculed by her classmates. She is also abused and rejected by her own family. Penola is the protagonist because her character goes through a major transformation. She beings as an innocent girl who wants blue eyes to fit into both her society and her family. This changes when external circumstances force her to want blue eyes so she can change who she is
Pecola Breedlove doesn’t have friends and and is ridicule by other kids her age. She is a poor, Black, little girl that was trying to survive in a world full of racism. She was living in an era where light skin and blue eyes were the definition of beauty. Pecola’s skin was black and her eyes are brown so she was considered ugly. Her classmates used her looks to tease each other as it states in the text where children would say, “Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove! Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove!” (Morrison 46). They also used of chants like, “Black e mos, black e mos, ya daddy sleep naked” (Morrison 65) to point out the “deformity” of her looks. Penola didn’t fight back because she, herself, felt that she was ugly and thought what they said was true.
Pecola was abused and rejected by her own family. Her mother, …show more content…
She desperately believes that blue eyes can give her the keys necessary to be accepted into her surrounding society and the keys to be loved and accepted by her parents. The acceptance of these key characters in her life is crucial because she doesn’t have friends and is ridiculed by her classmates. She is also abused and rejected by her own family. Penola is the protagonist because her character goes through a major transformation. She beings as an innocent girl who wants blue eyes to fit into both her society and her family. This changes when external circumstances force her to want blue eyes so she can change who she is