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Pecola had gone to the penny candy store and decided to buy Mary Janes. When she is ready to pay the store clerk is a white, blue eyed man, who decides not to give her human recognition. "He does not see her ... see a little black girl?" (Morrison 48)

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How young black girls are really left for them selves to figure things out about their body. Pecola didn't even know about mensuration until she started and then her and the girls were over sexualized and assumed to wanting to be sexual when they were just helping Pecola, and that is something maybe seen as normal in the black community that black girls are always over sexualized and seen as always wanting to have sex. (Morrison 30)

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The narrator begins to describe the Breedloves' apartment, which was previously a store. The Breedloves are poor and the injustice in the society plays a large role in their living situation. ''The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and stayed there because they believed they were ugly" (Morrison 38).

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The narrator describes Janes thoughts, showing that she is a young child "... who will play

with jane see the cat it goes meow-meow come and play

come  play  with  jane  the  kitten  will  not  play  see  mother

mother is very nice mother will you play with jane mother

laughs laugh mother laugh see father he is big and strong

father will you play with jane father is smiling smile father

smile see the dog bowwow goes the dog do you want to

play  do  you  want  to  play  with  jane  see  the  dog  run  run

dog run look look here comes a friend the friend will play

with jane they will play a good game play jane play." (Morrison 19)

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The narrator shows us how Pecola is a very vigilant person when in her own house, with her ownparents. She describes how Pecola can hear Mrs. Breed love getting out of bed, getting dressed, and walking. She also hears and smells the alcohol on Cholly. She seemsto be ready for when anything could go wrong. "Even from where Pecola lay, she could smell Cholly's whiskey. The noises in the kitchen became louder and less hollow. There was direction and purpose in Mrs. Breedlove's movements that had nothing to do with the preparation of breakfast."

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The narrator began to describe the Breedloves house and how they lived there because they were poor. They began to say that it had to do with their appearance and how it doesn't fit the standards for society. "The eyes, the small eyes...could not find the source" (Morrison 38-39).

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The narrator is describing the Breedloves living situation, and their place in society. "The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly." (Morrison 38).

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After Claudia received a blonde-haired blue eyed doll, she was upset that to be beautiful girls had to look that way.

"Adults, older girls, shops...you may have it" (Morrison 20-21)

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The girls are sitting bored on the steps when Pecola begins bleeding from between her legs. Frieda understands that Pecola is menstruating and attempts to attach a pad to Pecola’s dress. Meanwhile, Rosemary, who has been watching from the bushes, yells to Mrs. MacTeer that the girls are “playing nasty.” Mrs. MacTeer starts to whip Friedathem. "grabbed Frieda by the shoulder and gave her three or four stinging cuts on her legs" (Morrison 30).

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Talking about where the setting is
"Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men and sober
eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel" (9).

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Following Claudia's backstory on her relationship with dolls, she expresses how possessions were not what brought her joy. She would  rather have heartwarming experiences as her Christmas present than a doll.

"they would have known...something on Christmas day" (Morrison 21-22)

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Mrs. and Mr. Breedlove often fight. In reaction to this Sammy runs away and while Pecola might wish to she cannot because of her age and gender. This force to handle her parents fighting a different way.
"Pecola, on the other hand, restricted by youth and sex, experimented with methods of endurance" (Morrison 43).

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The narrator's mother is lecturing the children about one of them drinking 3 quarts of milk, and she says "'I don't know what I'm supposed to be running here, a charity ward, I guess. Time for me to get out of the giving line and get in the getting line. I guess I ain't supposed to have nothing. I'm supposed to end up in the poorhouse.'" (Morrison 24)

The narrators mother is lamenting about her life in poverty, saying she doesn't have enough to stay comfortable.

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While Cholly was having sexual interactions with a girl, 2 white men came across him and the girl and start humiliating him, laughing and using racial slurs, saying
"Cholly had been... nigger, make it good” (Morrison 42).

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At the beginning of the story, Morrison recalls memories in her childhood in which she overheard her mother and her friends repeat the phrase "Quiet as it's kept," when in normal conversation. Specifically, Morrison uses the phrase herself when she says, “Quiet as it's kept, there were no marigolds in the fall 1941.” (Morrison pg.3) This phrase, it seems, was universally understood around Morrison's neighborhood as a child because it was a syllogism for the the injustices that plagued her childhood community due to abusive actions against the African American community that were "kept" "quiet", therefore "quiet as its kept".

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The night Pecola had her period before Frieda and Claudia, still in their innocence. The girls figured that in order to have a baby "somebody has to love you- How do you do that?- How do you get somebody to love you?"(Morrison 32)

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When Claudia is sick, her mother seems very angry that she is sick, but her mother tries with everything she can to keep her alive. Claudia recognizes that her mother loves her through her actions, not her words. "Love, thick and dark..." (Morrison 12).