The bluest eye group 3

Metin Demirci Ebru Gümrükçüoğlu Cemre Naz Özkara

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About the author  Brief Summary  Morisson’s style 

 Metaphor  Simile  İmagery

The Great Depression  Search for love 

 Pecola  Pauline  Cholly

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References

Born in Lorain, Ohio  Her parents moved to escape south racism  Novel partly based on her life 

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The story tells about the issues, which black society confronts ________. A black family’s, Mac Teer’s, daughter ________ narrates her memories about her friend Pecola, who was __________ her father Cholly. Because of her admiration to ______ _____, Pecola wants to have the bluest eyes ever. Afterwards she insists, _________ _________ convinces her that she has blue eyes. Because of the societies attitude towards her __________ and her obsession to blue eyes, she feels ___________ from society. After her _______ _______, she goes mad and she thinks that she could fly.

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baby’s death

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pregnancy

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Claudia

Soaphead Church

in 1941 white beauty  isolated  raped by 

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Metaphors 

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Simile 

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Seeds, earth, black dirt, martyrdom

Regional contrast, racial stereotypes

Imagery 

Maurine, Anger, Black people

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“Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live.”

What do you think the word “seed” represents in the quotation? Answer: Here the word “seed” represents the individuals who can’t adapt their selves to the society and its rules. (Such as Pecola)

“I talk about how i did not plant the seeds too deeply, how it was the fault of the earth, the land, of our town. I even think now that the land of the entire country was hostile to marigolds that year.”

Which system is being criticized by usage of the word “earth”?

Answer: Racist system

“We had dropped our seeds in our own little plot of black dirt just as Pecola’s father had dropped his seeds in his own plot of black dirt.” The phrase “black dirt” has been used in the quotation in two different ways. What is the difference between their meanings?

Answer: 1) Their own environment 2) Pecola’s womb

“Mrs. Breedlove handled hers as an actor does a prop: for the articulation of character, for support of a role she frequently imagined was hersmartyrdom.” Mrs. Breedlove thinks that she can save Cholly from hell, because he’s an alcoholic. If he stops drinking then she wouldn’t have any other purpose in her life. What would be your reaction in a similar situation like Mrs. Breedlove, would you try to save your partner or leave?

Regional Contrast

Black

White    

Blue sky Lakefront white houses Lake view Good fortune, permanent job, well-to-do family

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Orange-patched sky Leaned gray houses Steel pollution No zinc tub, no buckets of stove-heated water

Have you ever observed such a strict discripency in Istanbul’s neighborhoods? Where and how?

Racial stereotypes Sugar brown girls    

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Slim ankles Long narrow feet Smell like vanilla Do not smoke, drink or swear

Black • • •

Big asses Big lips Kinky hair

What do you think about racial stereotyping in Turkey?

Ideal “White” Image “Colored people were neat and quiet; niggers were dirty and loud. He belolonged (Junior) to the former group: He wore white shirts and blue trousers; his hair was cut as close to his scalp as possible to avoid any suggestion of wool, the part was etched into his hair by the barber. ” http://punchbutton.beloblog.c om/archives/images/0 906/richie%20rich.bmp

MAURINE • • • •

Patent-leather shoes Brightly colored knee Socks with white borders Velvet coat trimmed in rabbit fur

“A high-yellow dream child with long brown hair braided into two lynch ropes that hung down her back. She was rich at least by our standards (. . .) the quality of her clothes treatened to derange Frieda and me.”

ANGER “Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. And awareness of worth. It is a lovely searching.”

How would you describe anger?

The Breedloves  Poor and black  Ugly  Poverty is traditonal  Unique ugliness “You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction (...) they accepted it without question.”

“The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world.” (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, 2010, n.p.)

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Novel is set at the end of depression  Cholly is jobless  Poverty and migration 

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Pecola Why do you think Pecola is obsessed with blue eyes in relation her search for love?

Blue eyes means beauty  She would not sit alone in classroom  Cholly and Pauline would be different  Her teacher would like her

Mrs. Breedlove 

Pauline thinks that Cholly fulfilled her need for love

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Going movies alone Happiness means wearing pretty clothes and having a lovely smile

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Do you think that marriage kills love?

Cholly “Cholly had always thought of his father as a giant of a man, so when he was very close it was with a shock that he discovered that he was taller than his father.”

What would be your reaction if your father wouldn’t accept you as his child?

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