Book Defense: The Bluest Eye “Quiet as it is kept there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. We thought, at the time, that it was because Pecola was having her father’s baby that the marigolds did not grow” (Morrison 3). This is the story of Pecola Breedlove, who each night prayed for blue eyes. This miracle would make her family different and people would look at her differently after all; they were ugly people (Morrison 39) and only a prayer would help them. Throughout the novel The Bluest Eye author Toni Morrison tells the story of a 12-year-old girl who struggles with abuse from her family and the community in which she lives in. She is blamed for her own rape and pregnancy and want her kicked out of the school that she attends because they do not want the other students to learn about her pregnancy, or for them to know about rape or incest as that is how Pecola became pregnant by her father, Cholly Breedlove. …show more content…
Pecola is now seen searching the garbage and walking up and down, up and down her head jerking to the beat of a drum so distant that she could only hear (Morrison 204). Her baby came too soon and died and now Pecola had grown to convince herself that she had blue eyes and that is the reason no one talks to her, because they are jealous of her blue eyes. Even then after she convinces herself that she has blue eyes, she is heartbroken to even think that someone out there has bluer eyes than she