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Pecola Breedlove is the most important main character in the novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. The author doesn't talk so clearly about Pecola's appearance, she just says Pecola is ugly. However,she describes the look of the Breedlove's family in the novel, " The rest of the family-Mrs. Breedlove, Sammy Breedlove and Pecola Breedlove-wore their ugliness, put it on, so to speak, although it did not belong to them. The eyes, the small eyes set closely together under narrow foreheads. The low, irregular hairlines, which seemed even more irregular in ocntrast to the straight, heavy eyebrows which nearly met. Keen but crooked noses, with insolent nostrils. They had high cheekbones, and their ears turned forward. Shapely lips which called attention not to themselves but to the rest of the face. You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly." Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had noticed her, ever. However with blue eye, she though, "If those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different. If she looked different, beautiful, maybe her father Cholly would be different, and Ms. Breedlove too. Maybe they'd says, "Why, look at pretty-eyed Pecola. We mustn't do things in front of those pretty eyes." She yearns to become beautiful and people will look at her, so that her world will be different. She goes to Soaphead Church asks for a help to get "blue eyes, bluer than theirs".
She is always the main character in jokes which are usually because of her dark skin. It was a false spring day, a group of boys was circling and holding at her. They harassed her "Black e mo. Black e mo. Yadaddsleepsnekked." However, someone does act friendly to Pecola, "Frieda and I walked behind them, surprised at Maureen's friendliness to Pecola, but pleased." The color of her skin involves her to be hurted by Geradine who is Junior's mother. When she enters Geraldine's home after her son invited her, Geraldine forces her to leave with words that hurt deeply, saying "Get out, you nasty little black bitch. Get out of my house."
Pecola Breedlove is important in the novel because the entire novel how she has a targic life. How she faces the racism in society in that era. How a eleven years old black girl explores the targic experiences. I would like to be the main character because I wonder what courage to make Pecola to face the problems. I want to be personally on the scene of Pecola able to know the feelings which were Peocla experienced. I would like the main character to be my friend because I want to help her go out sentimental feelings. I hope she will be happy and forget those unhappy experiences when I give my love up. If I have a chance to meet the main character, I will talk to her and let her know that I care about her.
