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I wrote an entire research paper on the meaning of beauty between the two races in this book, so it's fair to say that I've read it at least 3 times in a span of 2 weeks. This is quite an amazing book. It's truly unsettling to witness the spurning of a child within a culture that has spent most of it's history being spurned for the way they look. And here comes this child, Pecola, and she has the unfortunate lot in life of not only being ugly, but being constantly abused by her family. It's not
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I can't believe it has taken me this long to read a book by Toni Morrison. This book is an eye opening account of how horrible people can be to poor, black, and "unattractive" people. The horror is what happens to the little Pecola. The author uses many perspectives to show she came into being by telling the story of both parents and different times in the narrative. It's a different way to tell a story and I appreciated it. The narrator is also an outsider who does not like the "blue eyed, blon
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Mar 08, 2013
Lisette
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Aug 26, 2014
Stephanie
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