Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 204 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

The Bluest Eye finale

My reaction to reading the ending to "The Bluest Eye", by Toni Morrison, was that I was a little confused because of the jumps in the narration. I enjoyed the fact that we got to learn about Cholly's childhood in one chapter, because he was an important character and I didn't understand why he was the way he was until reading this chapter. I felt that I disliked Cholly before this chapter because he seemed like a lazy drunk who took advantage of his daughter. I still do not like Cholly because he got his own daughter pregnant, which is pretty disgusting. I feel that Pecola is a tragic character because she tries so desperately to fit into society, but she cannot, because she is black and grew up in a dysfunctional family in which her father raped her. The ending of the book made me a little depressed because it showed how Pecola's hopes and dreams were ruined because of her father.

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