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During the introduction of the Breedlove family Toni Morrison explains they are all quite ugly, "the small eyes set closely...the rest of the face" (pages 38-39)

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She describes how people can be thrown ¨outdoors¨ and have no where to go. ¨Sometimes mothers put their sons outdoors ... or heartless enough to put one’s own kin outdoors—that was criminal¨ (Morrison 17).

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Claudia's mother is different from others, and you can see the lack of love and care when she gets sick and her mother says, "Don't you have sense enough to hold your head out of the bead? Now, look what you did. You think I got time for nothing but washing up your puke?" (page 11)

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After Mama finds the girls outside, she is disgusted by the sight of them "playing nasty" and "grabbed Frieda by the shoulder and gave her three or four stinging cuts on her legs" (Morrison 30).

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In the very beginning of the story Claudia talks about the white neighbor who taunts her and Frieda. "She rolls down the window to tell me and my sister Frieda that we cant come in" (page 9)

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As the Breedlove Family is introduced, it talk about how they lived in a storefront because they were poor and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly. "No one could have convinced them that they were not relentlessly and aggressively ugly" (page 38).

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After Mama finds that Pecola has drank three quarts of milk, she sits the girls down and chews them out. The passive aggressive, condescending nature of these speeches "irritated and depressed" the girls, and mama just never stopped listing every one of her issues and things that "chagrined" her. The speeches always were "extremely painful in their thrust" to the girls.

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while talking about the Breedloves' situation, "They lived baecasue the were poor and black, they stayed because they beleived they were ugly...no one could have convinced them that they were not relentlessly and aggressively ugly"(38)

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The narrator refrences the idea of being "put outdoors," becoming homeless in some way and having no where to go. Being "put outdoors" is seen as an extreme punishment which no one deserves. She says, "To be put outdoors by a landlord... outdoors- that was criminal." (Morrison 17)

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"Justice" in this time is far more intense than it usually is today. Frieda and Claudia are accused of playing "nasty," and "Mama grabbed Frieda by the shoulder, turned her around, and gave her three or four stinging cuts on her legs...
whippings wounded and insulted her" (30-31). Obviously something that wasn't even proved yet was acted on with haste, and with force.

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The women that live above the Breedlove family shared their opinions on certain types of women. "Neither did they have respect..but always with vengeance"(Morrison 56)

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Claudia has an internal conflict about Shirley Temple and begins to develop an internal hatred towards her. "I had not yet arrived at the turning point in the development of my psyche that would allow me to love her. What I felt at the time was unsullied hatred" (page 19).

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After she buys the candies she looks at the picture on the box sees "Each pale yellow wrapper has a picture on it. A picture of

little  Mary  Jane,  for  whom  the  candy  is  named.  Smiling

white face. Blond hair in gentle disarray, blue eyes looking at

her"(Morrison 24).

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While being stranded we see the effect that it has on the girl and what she thinks on colorist. "I destroyed white baby dolls. But the dismembering of dolls was not the true horror. The truly horrifying thing was the transference of the same impulses to little white girls."(17-19)

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When Rosemary gets her period her and Frieda talk about how babies are born and they talk about how ¨their man¨ isn´t in their lives. ''Maybe that's why the women are sad: the men left before they could make a baby'' (Morrison 32)

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Pecola desperately wants blue eyes and to be seen as pretty. "Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for years she prayed" (Morrison 46).

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During a conversation she says something that ties back to their being poor and lower class which is often associated with want for possessions/property. "Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership"

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As Claudia listens to her parents talk about their new roomer Mr. Henry, She says to herself, "We do not, cannot, know the meanings of all their words, for we are nine and ten years old. So we watch their faces, their hands, their feet, and listen for truth in timbre" (Page 15).

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During the passage about the "outdoors" the author connects minorities and poverty, and what that has to do with class. She states, "Being a minority in both caste and class, we moved about anyway, on the hem of life, struggling to consolidate our weaknesses and hang on, or to creep singly up into the major folds of the garment." (Morrison 17)