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The Bluest Eye

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About the Author

Childhood to Womanhood
Teaching and Writing

About the Novel

Introduction
A Brief Synopsis
Structure Of The Bluest Eye
List of Characters

Summaries and Commentaries

Here is the house.
Quiet as it’s kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941.
Autumn: Nuns go by as quiet as lust . . .
Autumn: HEREISTHEHOUSE . . . There is an abandoned store . . .
Autumn: HEREISTHEFAMILY . . . The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because . . .
Autumn: Glossary
Winter: My daddy’s face is a study.
Winter: SEETHECAT . . . They come from Mobile.
Winter: Glossary
Spring: The first twigs are thin . . .
Spring: SEEMOTHER . . . The easiest thing to do would be to build . . .
Spring: SEEFATHER . . . When Cholly was four days old . . .
Spring: SEETHEDOG . . . Once there was an old man who loved things . . .
Spring: Glossary
Summer: I have only to break . . .
Summer: LOOKLOOK . . . How many times a minute are you going to look inside . . . ?
Summer: So it was.
Summer: Glossary

Character Analyses

Pecola Breedlove
Claudia And Frieda Macteer
Pauline
Cholly Breedlove
Soaphead Church (Elihue Micah Whitcomb)

Critical Essay

An Overview Of The Bluest Eye

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Should the government bail out the auto industry?

Yes, it's too important to our economy.
No, the government is already broke enough.
Only with strict regulations on how they can spend the money.

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Summer: Glossary

Moirai    In classical Greek mythology, they are the Fates, the goddesses of birth and death.

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