The Great Migration 2nd Period by Evelyn Kent https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc Add things please!! and put your name en-us 2020-11-02 06:09:21 UTC 2020-11-05 15:56:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Pecola is a young teenage African American girl. She is convinced that she is ugly and believes that is the reason why her father is an abusive alcoholic. She thinks if she has blue eyes then all her problems will go away. -Logan G https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/881267392 2020-11-02 06:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/881267392 The story takes place in Ohio during the 1960s close to the end of the Great Migration era. This setting has set up the story for having a real life scenario of what life was like for African Americans who moved North during the Great Migration. It has been important for the characters as it shows how they deal with different kinds of racism and experiences since they are living in the Northern United States. -Logan G https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/881278406 2020-11-02 06:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/881278406 A theme I have seen in this book is that beauty standards play a role in a persons life at a very young and can have a very negative impact on how they see themselves. "A little black girl who wants to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes." (174) This quote helps show that Pecola believes that if she can make herself fit in with the white beauty standards she might be able to avoid oppression for being black in a racist America. - Logan G https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/881292716 2020-11-02 06:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/881292716 It seems like Pecolas only hope is to have blue eyes. That is the only happy future she sees for herself -Teja https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/881459469 2020-11-02 07:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/881459469 Men in woods calling Cholly racial slurs and abusing them-Teja https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/881462681 2020-11-02 07:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/881462681 Pauline and Cholly are extremely destructive -Teja https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/881465816 2020-11-02 07:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/881465816 Frieda and Claudia are sisters, both are strong girls and tend to stick up for each other and their friends -Evelyn ekent6775 https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894416499 2020-11-05 15:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894416499 Mr. Henry was a boarder at Claudia and Frieda's house. He seems like a kind man, but he bribes them with candy to have one of the prostitutes over, and then he assaults Frieda. ekent6775 https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894420716 2020-11-05 15:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894420716 They live in a small town, with both white and Black people, and with recent and non recently migrated. This sets up some conflict for people like Pauline, who is from the south and doesn't get along with the Black women in the town. ekent6775 https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894428595 2020-11-05 15:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894428595 Another theme is family. In each characters story, family plays an important role. Morrison shows us through the wide variety of characters, also the wide variety of family, to break stereotypes of Black family. She uses strong families like Claudia and Frieda's to show how protective we are of each other. And she shows Cholly and Pauline in Pecola's family as broken and hurt because of their past, and the choices they make to harm each other. ekent6775 https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894453635 2020-11-05 15:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894453635 Maureen a mixed girl at school, pretending to be nice to Frieda, Claudia and Pecola, only to turn around and throw more racial slurs in their faces. She never wanted friendship she just wanted to know things about Pecola and her father. Frieda and Claudia resist her and yell back, standing up for each other. ekent6775 https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894468466 2020-11-05 15:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894468466 Sorry to be dark but, I dont see a happy future for Pecola. I think for many of the other characters they will grow and become whole again, no matter what has happened. But Pecola has fully immersed herself in believing she has blue eyes. She will live thinking that, and be in her own world for the rest of her life. Because of the story it is, I don't think anyone will get justice. ekent6775 https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894481467 2020-11-05 15:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894481467 Lorain Ohio, 1930's ekent6775 https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894530110 2020-11-05 15:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ekent6775/dlno0lteb3l7fltc/wish/894530110