Toni Morrison

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Geraldine’s son, entices Pecola to come to their house by promising her a kitten. Junior’s mother has a blue eyed, black cat. Junior becomes so jealous of the cat, he throws it at Pecloa and then locks her in a room with it. Junior leaves the cat unconscious from throwing it against the wall after realizing Pecola starts liking to the cat. Junior tells his mom that Pecola left the cat unconscious. “Geraldine, enraged by Pecola’s impoverished ugliness, calls Pecola a “black bitch” and tells her to get out” (Magill 244).
The “Spring” section of novel the concentrates on Pecola’s parent’s earlier lives. Mrs. Breedlove recalls losing her romantic side and remembers how Cholly and her made love when they were young. Cholly goes back in history remembering his abandonment by his mother and growing up with his Great Aunt Jimmy. Cholly’s story does recall his marriage to Mrs. Breedlove, but its last sexual figure is him rapping their daughter. Pecola becomes pregnant and starts to petition Soaphead, known for molesting little girls, for blue eyes. “Soaphead tricks her into poisoning his landlady’s dog, an animal that offends Soaphead’s sensibilities” (Magill 244). As Soaphead drifts off to sleep after writing a letter to God for Pecola, she becomes angered.
Claudia is the narrator of the section called “Summer.” Claudia and Frieda begin to piece together gossip they overhear about Pecola while trying to sell marigold seeds so they can buy a bicycle. “Pecola is pregnant with Cholly’s child. Cholly has fled. Mrs. Breedlove has beaten Pecola” (Magill 244). In the end, Pecola is still obsessed with having blue eyes. “Claudia, as narrator, reveals that the baby is dead; that Pecola’s brother, Sammy, left town; that Cholly died in a workhouse; and that Mrs. Breedlove still does housework” (Magill 244).
After reading the novel, one comments on the book as “a novel of growing up, of...