The second narrator offers us her memories about Pecola's family. Pecola and the MacTeer girls share childhood adventures, and what Claudia remembers in particular is the startling onset of Pecola's puberty when the eleven-year-old girl unexpectedly has her first menstrual period. The family soon has another roomer - Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl whom county officials place in the MacTeer home after Pecola's father burns the family house down. Henry as a roomer because his rent money will help pay bills. Claudia and her older sister, Frieda, have just started school.

We then segue into a lengthy flashback, to Autumn 1940, a year before the fall when no marigolds bloomed. She tells us that Pecola's father, Cholly Breedlove, is now dead, the baby is dead, and the innocence of the young girls also died that fall. She was only a child then, but she remembers that no marigolds bloomed that fall, and she and her friends thought it was probably because their friend and playmate, Pecola, was having her father's baby. 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.Ĭlaudia MacTeer is now a grown woman, telling us about certain events that happened during the fall of 1941. retrospective narration as an adult contains her childhood memories about what happened to Pecola. In the sections labeled with the name of a season, Claudia MacTeer's. The imaginary friend says she will, 'right before very eyes.The events in The Bluest Eye are not presented chronologically instead, they are linked by the voices and memories of two narrators. When the imaginary friend leaves, Pecola believes it is because her eyes aren't blue enough, and asks if she will come back if she gets the bluest eyes. She reveals that she is still insecure about her eyes, that maybe they aren't the bluest eyes in the world. The imaginary friend continues to pry about the rape, but Pecola changes the subject, focusing once again on her blue eyes. Her imaginary friend says that Cholly could make anyone do anything, and that Cholly made Pecola have sex with him, and that he tried to do it again at another time while Pecola was on the couch.

Pecola says she 'did it' with him all of the time because he made her. Breedlove would miss him, her imaginary friend responds by saying she probably loved him, and that's why she let him 'do it' to her all of the time. Breedlove ignores Pecola because she misses Cholly. Pecola's imaginary friend suggests that Mrs. The topic of their conversation then turns to Cholly.

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