Pecola visits the whores who live upstairs: Marie, China, and Poland. Pecola tried to disappear, but she never did. Sammy, Pecola’s brother, ran away from home during those times. Breedlove loved to fight they needed to fight, they needed each other. Author Morrison describes it all so we can see it, smell it, hate it. Years ago, the Breedloves lived in a run-down storefront with peeling paint and a torn couch. Her father, Cholly Breedlove, is in jail. Claudia mutilates the dolls and wishes she could mutilate Shirley Temple too. Claudia hates the dolls she is given at Christmas and birthdays: life-size dolls with blond hair and blue eyes that say “Mama” in a voice that sounds like a rusted refrigerator door opening. She tells the reader in her own voice how she and her sister, Frieda, fill burlap sacks with bits of coal to heat their house. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, is the story of Claudia.
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