ENGL 2108 Study Guide - Dysfunctional Family, Temple Cup, The Yellow Wallpaper
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Toni morrison, the bluest eye final lecture notes. Final lecture: finish up discussion of pecola"s silence (until the end of the novel when she is, the cyclical nature of racial(ized) self-loathing (passed down from parents, from. Insane and talks to herself) one generation to the next: black male characters in the novel, ending of novel: Violent towards women; almost as powerless as the women in terms of social oppression/victimization, so they violently lash out against the only ones less powerful than they are girls. Why the rape scene is (controversially) told from cholly"s perspective, as filtered through a third person narrative voice. Their voice(s) and the story claudia has written here = power (and a power that pecola clearly lacks) Dandelions symbolic of black girls: mr. y"s treatment of pecola: Literally sees her as nothing (p. 48: she walks in the store, he senses that he need not waste the effort of a glance.
