madtitory 5

After talking to my aunt who is 32 about this book she tells me that some of these things happened to alot of people around her when she was groing up and she didnt understand buyt when she got older she did understand, my aunt says that her sister who will be unnamed thought that if she had smaller hips than she would be much prettier than she is. my aunt said that growing up in the late 80s and early 90s girls had alot of pressure on changing themselves to what the "ideal" picture is she then begins to explain what the "ideal" picture is, a short light skinned girl with perfect green or hazel eyes,long flowing hispanic like hair, a slinder stomach and a bigger bust line with no kids and could sing wonderfully. she said this image was patreaid on t.v and eveyone wanted to be like this no matter who they were they had to have all the jewlery and clothes that squeezed the body, all the updated hair due's and shoes. she said that she rembers going into high school and remebering that she used to steal her older sister's clothing and footwear, so that she can be just like the other kids at school portraing that image. after all of this conversating my aunt then tells me that she realizes that she is her own person and chaging herself is NOT the right thing to do you are diffrent so that everyone can tell eachother apart

manditory 4 the end

The end of the book ends in the summer and it ended good, in chapter 10 we are left with the girls selling seeds to people all over town and are being disobedient even though they were told to only do houses they know because their mother is worried that someone would do something to them or try and hurt them, they figure because they are together no one will try anything so they do it anyways being invited into houses and everything but as they are invited into these houses they listen to adults talking about their friend pecola who was raped by her father and was impregnated, the girls never new this but as they go to house to house they figure out that people blame pecola and they hate the father for what he has done to his daughter. to be honest i knew that  this was going to happened because for one her father is a drunk and he is not getting loved by his wife at all so he takes it out on his daughter. for they think that she should NOT be in school, and she that its all her fault even her mother beat her almost to death, but Claudia and Freida feel that its not her fault and they feel what the other people in town do not SORROW.. i think that its not her fault she was not tempting her dad or anything she was being a normal little girl and her father as for him he should have  away because if i was pecolas mother i would have haded that situation allot  different i would have almost beat the father to death and comforted pecola. in chapter 11 is an imaginary story with an imaginary friend who talks with her and is basically having a discussion about pecola's new blue eyes and her imaginary friend wanting to play but all pecola can do is stare at the mirror all day and stare at her new eyes that she loves so much and has been praying for. she also gets in and talks about the rape experiences and how the mother feels but pecola  doesn't like the topic so she changes it back to her eye color, which by the way thinks that everyone is jealous of.

the story basically ends with pecola and her mother leaving and moving somewhere else while her father dies and she get into explains love and the truth about it.
I really liked this book maybe because it was African Americans or maybe because it showed and told allot of truth of what happens to not only African Americans but to allot of people in this world people who wanna change their appearance, people who don't think their pretty enough and people who get mentally physically and emotionally abused everyday but i have to say this book was great.

mandatory 3

Reading about halfway through the book and i like it allot I'm around chapters 5-6 and seven this chapter deals with allot of things good and bad. the part i didn't like to much was when Henry had the nerve to touch Freida's breast, and try to get away with it, but after telling Claudia what happened she had the courage to go and tell her parents what happened to her. with her parents by her side they quickly go back to the house and then the parents try and hurt Henry and even tries to shot him, but Henry got away as quickly as he could. i think if i were in a situation like this when i was little than my mom and dad would be furious to but i don't think they would have shot them because they would have thought about the consequences before they've done it. going backwards into the book in chapter 5 we were introduced to a much beautifuler black women who cares about herself her clothes her family and her husband, that she will teach the world how to believe and the skills they need to survive. this women wonders about sex and why they "haven't put it in a more convenient place like the armpit or the palm of the hand" she feels that sex is not as wonderful as many people think when men have sex with these types of women they usually do it on their elbows so that they don't mess up her chest or even get to close to touch her. she thinks a cat is a better lover than a man or his private part. i like both of these chapters in this book it really becomes real as in the middle .

the group situation

in my english class a few of us are reading the same book "the bluest eye", so today in class we discussed a few things about the book and how we actuallt felt about it. we all are at diffrent lengths of the book, but we all decided that we really dont understand alot of things, my teacher came to our group and said that tony morrison is kind of a hard person to be reading from and it's almost like she was a poet writting a book alot of metaphors and literary elements. but i guess il just keep reading the book and looking at spark notes to understand.

MAND.2 PT.2

Pecola Breedlove- 11 yrs. african american
--wants to have blue eye's because she beleives that they would make her beautiful, like the "white" people with them. She is more of a loner because there is not really  a person in her life that she can trust with anything.
Claudia Macteer- 9 yrs. old african american
--Unlike pecola, she feels that african americans are beautiful the way they are and that the average "white" person with blue eyes is not as appealing as others make it seem. She is a charcter that  I like because she speaks her mind, and she does not take anything from anybody.

Cholly Breddlove- The father of pecola who takes out his anger using his hands to hurt his kid and wife. Although he does this he still loves them both.

Pauline Breedlove- Pecola's mother who like her daughter  thinks she is ugly, and keeps to herself. Who has a broken marriage that she doesn't want or even need to be in, but through it all she finds her love in  watching other  "white" families and in love movies that she always watches. Imagining herself in these thing's  I think are the key things that keep her moving.

MAND.2 PT.1

So far I am about half way through about 2-3 chapters and my prediction of this book was  somewhat  right, but the details  in the book almost  make it seem  as if you were actually  there . In the  book they describe  a scene  were one of the kids  was throwing up and was sick. The way  they  described  the scene was how you would actually  see the scene if you were there or if it was a play. So far i really love  the book i think its well narrated and written  i would definitely  recommend  this book to family and friends.

The Bluest Eye mandatory 1

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
205 pages
Genre:Drama/Fiction
Looking at the cover and reading the title is making me think that it will basically be about a African american girl, who on the cover looks lonely. when i read the back of the book it kind of tells me a little bit more which explains what will be going on with out telling the full story. It's about a young black girl who see's the way that young white girls are treated because of the way they look, so in her mind she is thinking about how she would be treated better and prettier with blue eye's. the book take's place in the 1940's in Lorain,Ohio. i hope that my predictions are right and accurate im so anxious to read it going to  start now.