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Pecola
Toni Morrison allows the reader to see racism at it’s very worst. Through lack of guidance, Pecola is left ignorant emotionally and educationally, thus easily affected by society’s judgments. The reader sees what happens to an innocent young girl who is dependent on society for identification, self-value and feeling of worth. The ....
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.... be looked at, be respected, accepted and admired.
“if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say beautiful, she herself would be different” (p34)
The white cultures’ judgements were forced upon Pecola; she like society identified herself as black, and therefore dirty, unequal to whites and ugly.
Like her parents she began to resent her black heritage for keeping her from the Dick and Jane world.
Here we see the consequences of depending on external conditioning for self-value and feeling of worth. Pecola’s belief that she is not as worthy as white ....
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