16. She is a "precious" girl:(

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First of all, I have to admit that I cried while I was watching the film:( It was so sad.

(-)It's sad, it's so sad. It's a sad, sad situation...

Precious is a black girl. (This may be one reason which makes her unhappy)
Her father rapes her twice.
She is 17 years old but she two babies from his "own father"-(Also, her daughter is mentally retarted.)
She has problems with her mother.(They fight with each other) Her mother behaves badly towards her because she thinks Precious got his "man":( (but infact she loves Precious)
She has had no boy friends.
She is fat.
She feels ugly.
She gets the kick from her school.
Her mother gets sick:(

(+) What may be the good things in her life? (Unfortunately, there are a few things which can make her happy:()
She meets with Mrs. Rain (her teacher).(She shares her problems with her teacher and Mrs. Rain tries to help her)
"Each one teach one" (education)-(By this way, she learns how to communicate with people, she meets with new people(her classmates) and she gains friends).

15. Family Tree of Breedloves:)

In this picture, we can see the family members of Breedloves. Their surname is ironic. Because as you all know they do not breed love. Unfortunately, they have an unhappy family picture. We can see lack of love, incest, domestic violence in their family. Pecola has many missing parts in her family life. That can be a reason for her desire of blue eyes. She searches for love and tries to take attention of her family by owning blue eyes. Today, I talked about family identities in "The Bluest Eye" in my presentation. Unfortunately, Breedloves could not succeed to be a real family:(.

14. Love love love

What do you think about love??
I think love contains respect, affection, apprehension to loose, sacrifice. The lover afraids to offend his/her love and even afraids to touch.(Of course, this is not enough to define love but I tried to show some aspects of love to understand Cholly's "love"!)

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At the end of the story, Claudia mentions that "Cholly loved Pecola". "He loved enough to touch her, envelop her give something of himself to her". What kind of love is this? His father takes Pecola's virginity. Claudia tries to give the message that love is sometimes a damaging force. But, I can not accept this as a love:(. What a pity that Pecola goes mad before learning what is love meant:(. Infact, Claudia is right in a way: She says that lover is sometimes selfish. I agree with this. Lover sometimes make mistakes while expressing his love:(. He can try to posses more and more. But anyway, Cholly I can not entitle you. I know you had some difficulties in your life:( But imagine such a love: You play with your dear daughter Pecola, she laughs and you also laugh. You are hand by hand with her. When the sky gets dark Pecola afraids and hugs her Cholly. She forgets about her fears and smiles. She touchs you, she loves you, she hugs you, she feels your love deeply. Now Cholly:( Which one is better to touch but harm her or to be a real lover and live the LOVE!


FOR ALL OF US <3
Lets try to be the real lover and LOVE LOVE LOVE:)

13. Soaphead Church and his letter

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Soaphead Church seems a repulsive pedophile at the beginning. But, after I read his letter which was written to God I could develop empathy with him and understand his feelings. It is interesting that Morrison uses many ironies about Soaphead. She calls him "the clean old man". Yes, it is difficult to justify him and his behaviours but after I read his letter I discovered his loneliness. May be this is the reason for his concern of little girls and their breasts and so on.:( He lies about his familiarity with God and his power. But, I think he needs it in order to overcome his misantrophy. I don't know why but somehow I can't blame him. He is a misanthrope, pedophile, dishonest or other bad things:(. But I think his fight is with his blackness nothing else. May be he is the "the clean old man" but he ruins this image because of self-hatred and blackness. We can see his anger with his life by reading his letterç He blames God by not fulfilling his duties. He tells him about Pecola and how he was impressed by her wish(blue eyes). He also tells about his pedophillia and reasons behind it. He says that he doesn't harm little girls but likes to touch them(may be in order to remove his loneliness by touching pure and innocent lassies). Also, Soaphead was abandoned by Velma and this was also a big sorrow in his life:(.

I am a bit angry with Soaphead in some ways. Tell me Soaphead, why did you give the poisionous meat and use Pecola to kill the dog(Bob)?:/
Why did you use people's frailty and deceive them by superstitions?
Why did you think you are ALSO superior like white people?? (Because you have a mixed blood! It was wrong)
Finally, tell me you were so religious and educated right? So, why couldn't you change things and defeat your self-hatred?

OK, that's all Soaphead Church. Other than this, I believe that you are a good person in spite of appreance.:)

12. The Sweet Dream

Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick and Jane live in the green and white house. They are very happy. See Jane. She has a red dress. She wants to play. Who will play with Jane? (...) See Mother. Mother is very nice. Mother, will you play with Jane? Mother laughs. Laugh, Mother, laugh. See Father. He is big and strong. Father, will you play with Jane? Father is smiling. Smile, Father, smile.

This is the picture of happiness. But is it fake? Yes, it is. It is only a sweet dream. It is not the real picture out of from Pecola's life.:( This picture does not tell about her life, it only tells about her desires.

Let's focus on Pecola's real life:

Here is the storefront. It is old and cold. It has a "coal stove". It is out of control. Here is the family. Mrs.Breedlove, Cholly, Sammy and Pecola live in the old and cold storefront. They are miserable. See Pecola. She has "the meanest eyes in the town". She puts her mask(ugliness). She wants to have blue eyes. She wants to love and loved. Who will love Pecola? See Mrs. Breedlove. Mrs. Breedlove is strict and stoic. Mrs. Breedlove, will you love Pecola? Mother, gets angry. Huff, Mother, Huff!. See Father. He is alcoholic and cruel. Father, will you love Pecola or WILL YOU HARM? Father is beating her wife. Beat, Father, beat.

I try to adapt Pecola's real life to create the picture of "reality". I hope you would like it:)

11. The Bluest Eye

"The white race originally possesed the monopoly of beauty, intelligence and strength"- Gobineau

I liked this quotation because in a way it summarizes the idea of our novel. In this novel, there is a white doll which symbolizes beauty of whites. Claudia tries to destroy the doll because she also wants to look like that doll or she can't accept the unfairness(black=ugliness, whites=beauty). In addition to that, Pecola also prays for blue eyes. She wants a different appearence and even to reach the beauty of white girls. Thus, "white race originally posses the monopoly of beauty". Besides, Rosemary Villanucci is the white neighbour of MacTeers. She eats bread and she is rich. She is superior than black MacTeers and that's why Claudia beats Rosemary. So, "white race posses the monopoly of strength". These are some examples out of the story in further chapters I will try to cover racism a bit more deeply. I hope you liked the relation with the quotation and story:)


FIND THE DIFFERENCE(?!)

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10. Shooting an Elephant

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In this story,there is an elephant ravaging the bazaar and fears "natives". Because natives had no weapon to stop this elephant they expect the police to kill it. This elephant also kills an Indian black coolie. After that, English public waits excitedly to see the dead body of the elephant. They want it in order to have a bit fun and for it's meat. Police doesn't want to shoot the elephant but there are expectations from him(he has to impress natives not to loose the domination of white man image). He even doesn't like to be served to this jonb and he is against to imperialism. But no matter what he thinks, he shoots the elephant! SO, WHAT? Here, the police is not an individual anymore he is the puppet of people. Elephant dies in half an hour:( After the death of the elephant, the owner of it gets angry but he is only an Indian. So, it doesn't make any sense. At the end, there are two ideas: 1) An elephant is more valuable than an Indian collie. 2) Police is right to kill the elephant, because it threaten human life.

This is the story:)

Here are some quotations which tells us about racism:
*"Whites man's domination in East"
*"When the white man turns tyrants it is his own freedom that he destroys."
*"my whole life, every white man's life in East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at!-(the obsession in being the superior & this idea let them become a puppet instead of an individual!- what a pitty!
*A white man mustn't be frightened in front of natives -(be the courageous and stay as the superior!)



PS: * there is also a word called "sahib", I don't the exact meaning but I think it is the same in Turkish - sahip(the owner) so it refers to European colonial in India.