- self-hatred, not about racism
- narration: multiple, have to piece each one together
- different than poisonwood bible, white people refusing to understand black people, more about racism
- Pecola feels different than other people wants blue eyes: hates herself but not because of her skin color (not entirely)
- piece everything together only at the end of the book: Cholly, has no perception of what a family should be like.
- Structure is backwards
- Morrison focuses on the how and not the why
- Cholly (aka Charlie) is a tragic hero
- Pecola’s outcome is determined so is Cholly
- Choly’s inner turmoil has no boundries, he functions on hatred and tenderness.
09/09/10
- Nathan, Troy and Cholly don’t have the ability to provide and protect his family.
- Nathan feels guilty, didn’t want so many girls, was tormented.
- Nathan is ignorant, selfish and an egomaniac, he is naïve, refused to try and understand the natives
- He is ignorant, ignorance is a major theme of the book
- Ignorance: to deliberately shut out knowledge
- Nathan, Troy and Cholly have intimacy issues, all have a childhood trauma, translates through sex
- Lea and Mother evolve the most out of the family, Rachel remains ignorant
- Nathan is arrogant, also ignorant of what manhood is. What is the role of a man?
- Epistemology: What is knowledge? What is ignorance? What can we know? What should we know?
09/13/10
Bluest Eye Notes:
- Lorraine, Ohio -> no segregation, 1941
- True story
- This is not a book about racism, it is about black is beautiful and self-hatred, she is the most ugly, she is the “blackest”
- Claudia felt guilty
- They never speak about pecola “quite as its kept” they can’t even say her name
09/16/2010
- Introduction loses value third time because no spaces between words.
- Less and less meaning from version 1- 3
- Symbolizes Pecola’s evolution, her mind, her lifestyles, she can’t even focus on what’s the ideal and what she wants, everything is mixed together: words put together represents her reality.
- Juxtaposition between what it means and its inverse: IRONY
- Texts become more and more perverted: goes from natural to unnatural
- They have everything but there’s complete perversion
- IRONY: Pecola named after Peola character from movie “Imitation of Life”
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