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The Bluest Eye
Cavit Can MutganAyse Irmak Sen Berk Sami Gönül
Elif KırcuvalSection B-2
10/03/2010
cause you are beautiful no matter what they say
You will be informed about… Brief Information about novel and the author (Ayşe) Ideas which could be bear in mind during our
presentation(Elif) Historical Context:(Berk) Cyclical Storytelling and concept of time in the novel(Elif)
AutumnWinterSpringSummer
Coming of age(Ayşe&Can)PecolaChollyClaudia
References
Brief Information
The Author: Toni Morrison
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1931-Lorain/OhioStudied Humanities in UniversityThe Nobel Prize in Literature 1993
Brief Information
Publish date: 1970 Morrison’s first
novelSetting: Lorain,
Ohio 1940-1941 (Morrison’s home town) Retrieved May 8, 2010 from:
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During our presentation please bear in mind those ideas:
The distinction between rich white families and poor black families at 1940s
Definition of beauty according to the novel
Sexual abusementLack of sexual satisfaction and mental
satisfactionLoss of innoncence during coming of
age
Historical Context:The Great Migration
Did you realize the concept great migration in the novel “The Bluest Eye”?
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Pauline,Cholly,Geraldine was coming Ohio from Southern cities.
Great MigrationThe movement of 1.75 million African
Americans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1910 to 1930/40 - from the docks of Norfolk, Savannah, Jacksonville, Tampa, Mobile, New Orleans, and Galveston: from the cotton fields of Mississippi, and the coal mines and steel-mills of Alabama and Tennessee.
What causes migration?Is it just because of the job opportunities? Can you adapt this type of migration to our country?
"I witnessed the sending North from a southern city in one day a crowd estimated at twenty-five hundred. They were shipped on a train run in three sections, packed in day coaches, with all their baggage and other impedimenta." Stating that it was a journey into freedom.
James Weldon Johnson
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Causes
Urban tensions rose as African Americans and recent European immigrants, both groups chiefly from rural societies, competed for jobs and housing with the white ethnic working class.
Tensions were often most severe between ethnic Irish, defending their positions, and recent immigrants and blacks.
In your opinion does the migration form similar cause in our country?
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Integration
Integrated into society. The divide existing between thembecame increasingly stark. They sustained many Southerncultural and linguistic traits, suchcultural differences created a senseof "otherness“.
Can you give an example about this integration in the novel?
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Pauline is being humiliated by her neighbors because she came from south and finally she feels like she must act like them.
Second Great Migration
More than 5 million African Americans from the South to the other three regions of the United States.
Took place place from 1941, through World War II, and lasted until 1970.
To take jobs in the burgeoning industrial cities and especially the jobs in the defense industry during World War II.
“The Seasons for Growth program is based not on a linear view of life but rather on cyclical view of the world.”
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Cyclical Storytelling and the theme “time” in the novel:
“It uses a metaphor:the four seasons of the annual calendar.
The seasons never “end”. Autumn is followed by winter, which is followed by spring, and which is followed by summer, and then we’re into autumn again, and so on.
The seasons never end. They just change.”
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Why that Morrison used this type of storytelling?To show that this is not specific event, it is always repeating, just person and place is different but the event is same.
“Each of the seasons has a meaning which flows from the previous and which leads on to the next season.”
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Autumn
Experience lossThe fruits drop to the
ground The flowers are no more The season of harvesting
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AutumnThe flourishing summer is no longer with us
“So when i think of autumn ,I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die.” (Claudia)
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WinterExperience the pain
of this lossIn the cold of the
season, we tend to go inwards
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What is the pain, in other words the reason for going inwards for Pecola,Claudia and Frieda during the Winter of the novel?
WinterSuffer from the lack of what is no
longer with us.What can be this lackness according
to book?
“you nasty little black bitch” (p.92)”
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“If she was cute– and if anything could be believed, she was– then we were not. And what did that mean? We were lesser. Nicer, brighter, but still lesser. Dolls we could destroy, but we could not destroy the honey voices of parents and aunts, the obedience in the eyes of our peers, the slippery light in the eyes of our teachers when they encountered the Maureen Peals of the world. What was the secret? What did we lack? Why was
it important? And so what?” (p.74)
Supporting quotation from the novel:
“Outside, the March wind blew into the rip in her dress. She held her head down against the cold. But she could not hold it low enough to avoid seeing the snowflakes falling and dying on the pavement.” (p.93)
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Spring
Experience the thrill of the rebirth of new life
Remember the coldness of winterLook ahead to the potential of
new growth, new energy, new prospects of life.
What could be rebirth , new prospects of life can be for Pecola in the spring season?
Spring
“They beat us differently in the spring. Instead of the dull pain of a winter strap, there were these new green switches that lost their sting long after the whipping was over.” (p.97)
“Even now spring for me is shot through with the remembered ache of switchings, and forsythia holds no cheer.” (p.97)
Why do you think that Morrison wrote about Cholly's, Soaphead Church's and Pauline's life stories in the spring section?
Because spring is a new beginning and in that section the Morrison talked about the events that changed their lives.
Summer
What does summer reminds you?Looking outwards, satisfaction,
pleasure, delight of happinessCan you relate this adjectives with the
summer of the Pecola?Do you think is there irony?“It remains for me a season of storms.”
p.187 However, Frieda and Claudia are
searching for Pecola’s good
Summer
The enjoyment of the fullness of life:
Can we relate this speciality of summer to Pecola?
“I want them blue so people don’t do ugly things in front of me and I stop being invisible.”
AutumnExperince loss:Pecola’s baby dies in autumn.
Another aspect of Cyclical Storytelling:
• Dick and Jane Stories…• Hereisthehouse.Itisgreenandwhite.Ithasareddoor.Itis
verypretty.Hereisthefamily.Mother,Father,Dick,and Janeliveinthegreenandwhitehouse.Theyareveryhappy. SeeJane.Shehasareddress.Shewantstoplay.Whowillplay withJane.TheKittenwillnotplay.Seemother.Motheris verynice.Mother,willyouplaywithJane? Motherlaughs. Laugh,Mother,laugh.See Father.Heisbig and strong. Fatherissmiling.Smile,Father,smile.See the dog. Bowwowgoesthedog.DoyouwanttoplaywithJane?See thedogrun.Run,dog run.Look,lookherecomesafriend. ThefriendwillplaywithJane.Theywillplayagoodgame. Play,Jane,play.
Every children is start to reading with these books. And this books are always including same things so everytime the same prejudice is occuring. It is cyclical too.
Coming of Age
• Is coming of age is just one era or it lasts during all life? Can you relate your answer to the novel by using the characters Pecola ,Cholly,Pauline?
• Coming of age concept is being used for teenager years , however in this book we can see every year can be the key point of the people’s life.
Can we distinguish the coming of age’s of people as succesful or unsuccessful ?
During the coming of age , according to the external factors we create a solution for ourselves to escape or identify the events which we are living in other words we create our motto to survive in the world.
Pecola Breedlove
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Frieda Claudia
Media
Three Whore
Family
Sammy
Cholly
To be Beautiful
Supporting material from the novel,
China,Poland and Miss Marie:“Pecola loved them,visited them,ran
their errands. They , in turn , did not despise her.”
Supporting material from the novel,
Frieda and Claudia:“Frieda and I stopped fighting each
other and concentrated on our guest, trying hard to keep her from feeling outdoors.”
Supporting material from the novel,
Media:“We knew she was fond of the Shirley Temple cup and took every opportunity to drink out milk of it just to handle and see sweet Shirley’ face.”
“Three pennies had bought her nine lovely orgasms wih Mary Jane. Lovely Mary Jane, for whom a candy is named.”
Supporting material from the novel,
Vice to be beauty:“Why,look at pretty-eyed Pecola. We
mustn’t do bad things in front of those pretty eyes.”
Cholly Breedlove
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Aunt Jimmy
Samson Fuller
Love
Two Man in the forest
Hatred against world
Coming of Age through Claudia
Adulthood
Adolescence
Childhood
Being happy when getting candies through Mr. Henry
Frieda: “Somebody has to love you.”
B_ _ _ _ _
Beauty
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“I look at my chest.’I don’t have nothing to pinch. I’m never going to have nothing.’” p.100
“The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful.” p. 74
S_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Sexuality“A cold wind blew somewhere in me, lifting little leaves of terror and obscure longing.” p.77
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A _ _ _ _ _ vs T _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Various first E _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ /A _ _ _ _ _ _
Extreme F _ _ _ _ _ _ s &T _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Hallie,G. The Bluest Eye study guide. [PDF document]. Retrieved from Steppen Wolf Online Web site: http://www.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ501/Hallam/index.html
Marks, C. (1989) Farewell, We're Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration Indiana University Press (Bloomington)
Morrison, T. (1993). The Bluest Eye. New York: Vintage books.Retrieved May 8, 2010
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