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The events in The Bluest Eye are not presented chronologically; instead, they are linked by the voices and memories of two narrators. In the sections labeled with the name of a season, Claudia MacTeer’s. retrospective narration as an adult contains her childhood memories about what happened to Pecola. The other narrator, the omniscient narrator, then braids her stories into Claudia’s season sections, introducing influential characters and events that shape Pecola’s life.... More

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  Childhood to Womanhood
  Teaching and Writing
About the Novel
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  Here is the house.
  Quiet as it’s kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941.
  Autumn: Nuns go by as quiet as lust . . .
  Autumn: HEREISTHEHOUSE . . . There is an abandoned store . . .
  Autumn: HEREISTHEFAMILY . . . The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because . . .
  Autumn: Glossary
  Winter: My daddy’s face is a study.
  Winter: SEETHECAT . . . They come from Mobile.
  Winter: Glossary
  Spring: The first twigs are thin . . .
  Spring: SEEMOTHER . . . The easiest thing to do would be to build . . .
  Spring: SEEFATHER . . . When Cholly was four days old . . .
  Spring: SEETHEDOG . . . Once there was an old man who loved things . . .
  Spring: Glossary
  Summer: I have only to break . . .
  Summer: LOOKLOOK . . . How many times a minute are you going to look inside . . . ?
  Summer: So it was.
  Summer: Glossary
 

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