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The Macteer Family In Nine-Year-Old Juice By Toni Morrison

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In the exposition, Toni Morrison introduces two important characters in this novel, nine-year-old Claudia and ten-year-old Frieda Macteer, who live in Lorain, Ohio with their parents. The Macteer family takes in two new people into their household, Henry Washington, and Pecola Breedlove. Claudia’s parents really needed the extra money so they welcomed Mr.Washington but the girls did not mind because he was nice to them. In the other hand, Pecola Breedlove was placed temporarily in the Macteer household by the county because her father, Cholly Breedlove, had burned down the family’s house. Cholly had committed one of the worst sins, according to their community, and the Breedlove family became the center of attention and pity. During the time
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