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1. How did the tragedies in each characters background thus far in the text influence their perceptions on race, gender, and self-love?

2. Which is a greater threat to the children in The Bluest Eye, racism or sexism?

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1. What are some of the ways we see sexuality introduced in the text during this portion of the novel? We see the word “ruined” used frequently to describe sexual activity, how is this word problematic?

2. What are your interpretations on the relationship between Aunt Jimmy and Cholly? How does dealing with the loss of Aunt Jimmy push Cholly into his new life and the decisions he makes throughout the text?

3. Why would Morrison choose to have Cholly narrate the scene where he rapes Pecola? How does knowing Cholly's background story influence the way we accept or reject his actions overall?

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1.What do you think influenced Geraldine’s theories on the difference between “black” people, and “niggers”?

2. How does Geraldine and Polly’s characters fit into The Cult of True Womanhood? How does their expression of love and hatred influence those around them?

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1. How does the character of Maureen influence the other girls’ ideas of what it means to be a “black” girl? How does her character compare with the idea of the Shirley Temple cup in the earlier chapters?

2. What are some of the ways we see blackness associated with “mess” and whiteness associated with superiority?

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-Sexual initiation ,

"She sighed "First he said how pretty I was. Then he grabbed my arm and touched me." (99)

'Sexual abuse,

"Cholly stood up and could see only her grayish panties, so sad and limp around her ankles. Again the hatered mixed with tenderness" (163)

-Characters are misinformed,

"My Mama said so. My mama said you ruined" (104)

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1. Polly vs. Geraldine:

White Woman- Pious, Pure, Submissive, Domesticity, Weak (Doesn't work), Wives & Mothers.

Black Woman- Sinful (Evil), Sensual, Aggressive, Laborers, Physically Strong (unfeminine), Whores and Breeders.

Geraldine: "The sugar-brown Mobile girls move through the streets without a stir. They are as sweet and plain as buttercake. Slim ankles; long narrow feet. They wash themselves with Cashmere Bouquet talc, clean their teeth with salt on a piece of rag, soften their skin with Jergens lotion." (82)

"SEETHECATITGOESMEOWMEOWCOMEANDPLAYCOMEPLAYWITHJANETHEKITTENWILLNOTPLAYPPLAYPLAYPLA" (81)

Polly: "She took on the full responsibility and recognition of breadwinner and returned to the church. First, however, she moved out of the two rooms into a spacious first floor of a building that had been built as a store. She came into her own with the women who had despised her, by being more moral than they; she avenged herself on Cholly by forcing him to indulge in the weaknesses she despised." (126)

"SEEMOTHERMOTHERISVERYNICEMOTHERWILLYOUPLAYWITHJANEMOTHERLAUGHSLAUGHMOTHERLAUGHLA" (110)

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Geraldine

-Brown Skin.

- Not affectionate.

-Doesn't categorize herself as a nigger.

-Loves her cat more than her husband and child.

-Considers people who are of darker skin & in poverty "ugly" and beneath her.

-She cares about her appearance, and her role within the society

Junior

-Light-Skin

-Wants to play with black boys but is unable to because his mother (Geraldine) wants him to play with white boys.

- Is jealous of (Geraldine's cat)

-He torments the cat, and blames it on Pecola.

-He wants affection from his mother but is unable to receive it because he knows that his mother loves her cat more than him.

-He wants to be control, and his frustrated with being controlled by his mother.

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1. Aunt Jimmy saves Cholly.

2. Cholly suffers from being left, while he is grateful he still has moments of unsureness.

3. Darlene - His Father

4. Free, yet "dangerous"

"SEEFATHERHEISBIGANDSTRONGFATHERWILLYOUPLAYWITHJANEFATHERISSMILINGSMILEFATHERSMILESMILE" (132)

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Love,

"He came, strutting right out of a Kentucky sun on the hottest day of the year. He came big, he came strong, he came with yellow eyes, flaring nostrils, and he came with his own music" (114).

Physical abuse,

"Money became the focus of all their discusions, hers for clothes, his for drink" (118)

Self powerment,

"She married a man with a slash in his face instead of a mouth" (1 1)

Fantasy,

"Them Pictures gave me a lot of pleasure" (133)

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1. Light-skinned, wealthy, and enchanting

2. Treats Pecola to ice cream

3. "Boy crazy"

4. Tells Claudia, Pecola, and Frieda that they are "black and ugly", it is then that the girls realize that do not hate Maureen, but rather whatever it is that makes them ugly and her not.