1. The Bluest Eye

2. Summary
The story is about Pecola Breedlove. The story takes place in Lorain, Ohio during the 1940's. Pecola family isn't a typical family. Her father is an alcoholic and her brother always runs away from home. They live in poverty. Pecola is ugly and longs for blue eyes like Shirley Temple. She is always made fun of by other people. She eventually gets raped by her father and she gets pregnant. Everyone shuns her and hopes her baby dies.

3. Elements of Plot
Climax- Pecola gets raped and she asks for blue eyes from Soaphead.
Rising Action- Pecola is made fun of in school. Frieda and Claudia stick up for her.
Falling Action- Pecola becomes pregnant and is shuned from society.
Introduction- Claudia, Frieda, and Pecola are introduced. The story takes place in Lorain, Ohio.
Conclusion- the baby dies and Pecola starts to become a loner.

4. Point of View & Genre Point of View
The point of view of this story is first person.
The author wrote this story to entertain.
The narrator of the story is Claudia.
Genre
The genre is realistic fiction

5. Author's Style
The author's style is very descriptive, with well structured sentences.

6. Literary Terms
Symbolism- the blue eyes signify beauty and happiness. pg.195
Personification -The parched days. pg. 187
Simile- His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche. pg. 61
Simile- “Massive legs like tree stumps parted wide at the knees.” pg.102

7. Tone- mellow Mood- it is dreary and awkward
Tone & Mood

8. Critical Perspective There are still many people that live in poverty
Many people are racially discriminated
Many people are abused by parents and other adults

9. Significant Lines or Quotations
“Beating the air, a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reach- could not even see- but which filled the valleys of the mind.” pg. 204
“They beat their children with one hand and stole for them with the other.” pg. 130

10. Do you think that Pecola truly had blue eyes?
Questions
Do you think that Pecola truly had blue eyes?
Why do you think that Claudia and Frieda believe the marigolds will predict whether the baby will live or not?

11. Quiz 1.Who is the main character of the story?
2.What point of view is the story?
3.What is the one thing Pecola really wants?
4.If you had a family like Pecola's, what would you do?

12. By Zachary Burk, Michael Macher, Alex Brown, Katie Lopez and Adam Ebeling