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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Bluest Eye Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm not sure what you mean by "victims/ perpetrators of humanity" so...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/who-victims-and-perpetrators-violence-and-humanity-55489</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I'm not sure what you mean by "victims/ perpetrators of humanity" so I'll stick to those who connect to violence. Cholly and Pauline are good examples of characters who are both victims and perpetrators of violence. both have faced racism and hatred in their lives, with Cholly suffering a devastating trauma during his first sexual experience. they, in turn, continue the cycle through the abuse and neglect of their children and each other....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:13:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The "sacrificial offering" was actually the brutal poisoning death of a...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/what-sarificial-offering-did-girl-render-procure-51543</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The "sacrificial offering" was actually the brutal poisoning death of a dog. It was perpetrated by the local fortune teller, who also happened to be an abusive pedophile. Soaphead Church is Pecola's last resort after being raped and impregnated by her father. When she first arrives, he is inspired and actually wishes to help others, instead of taking advantage of them. Yet this quickly reverts back to a kind of impotent anger, in his...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:21:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cholly was absolutely affected by his experience. Sex is an incredibly...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cholly was absolutely affected by his experience. Sex is an incredibly intimate act, &amp; for it to be interrupted by anyone would be somewhat traumatizing, or at the very least embarrassing. But what Cholly experienced was on another level. To be interrupted, then forced to continue, with a mixture of racism, hatred, &amp; humiliation on the part of the watchers would be something that might take years to be able to cope with.
But Cholly...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:14:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Was Cholly tramatized by the hunters?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Was Cholly tramatized by the hunters?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:08:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[why do Claudia and Frieda beat up Rosemary]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[why do Claudia and Frieda beat up Rosemary]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:52:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what is the relationship between the excerpt form the first passage and...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/what-relationship-between-excerpt-form-first-112455</link>
        <description><![CDATA[what is the relationship between the excerpt form the first passage and the content of this chapter?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 06:02:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To what extent is Cholly to blame for violence against his family?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/what-extent-cholly-blame-violence-against-his-100209</link>
        <description><![CDATA[To what extent is Cholly to blame for violence against his family?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:46:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Claudia changes from believing idealistically and honestly as a child to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Claudia changes from believing idealistically and honestly as a child to a more conventional belief system. First of all she loses her superstititions. At the beginning of the book, she says she beleives that if the seeds brought flowers, the baby would have lived, but as an adult reminiscing she no longer believes as she did when she was a child.
She has become conventional. She has turned the honest, true and good hatred of the dolls into...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:01:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are some things that show irony in the bluest eye?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/what-some-things-that-show-irony-bluest-eye-97505</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What are some things that show irony in the bluest eye?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:44:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What changes does the narrator Claudia, go through? What changes...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What changes does the narrator Claudia, go through? What changes doesPecola go through?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/what-changes-does-narrator-claudia-go-through-what-97409</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:51:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The seasons of the year operate symbolically in the novel. The four...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/what-significance-four-parts-novel-their-96927</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The seasons of the year operate symbolically in the novel. The four structural sections each correspond to a season of the year. Autumn beings the book: for Claudia, Pecola, and Frieda (like most children), autumn is a time of "beginnings," especially the beginning of the school year. Indeed, this section does contain "beginnings," for Claudia and Frieda first meet Pecola here.
Winter is traditionally associated with barrenness, empitness, and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:19:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the significance of the four parts of the novel and their...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the significance of the four parts of the novel and their correlation with the four seasons of the year.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:42:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[One major motif of this novel is beauty, and how society and individuals...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/bluest-eye-why-does-pecola-think-blue-eyes-will-96685</link>
        <description><![CDATA[One major motif of this novel is beauty, and how society and individuals define that beauty. Morrison is responding to the pressure in the black community to live up to white society's standards of beauty, which in itself is a response to centuries of racism. Set in the 1940's, the novel's characters react to the icons of the silver screen: Shirley Temple, Jean Harlow, etc.--all white women.
Pecola's response to this pressure is a desire to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:07:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Bluest Eye, why does Pecola think blue eyes will improve her life?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/bluest-eye-why-does-pecola-think-blue-eyes-will-96685</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In The Bluest Eye, why does Pecola think blue eyes will improve her life?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:11:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Morrison uses selections from the "Dick and Jane" reader to represent...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/what-do-passages-from-childs-reading-primer-95941</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Morrison uses selections from the "Dick and Jane" reader to represent the three lifestyles presented in the novel. The book opens with three excerpts from the "Dick and Jane" reader, which was the standard textbook used to teach children to read from the 1940s through the 1960s. Each version reflects one family's lifestyle and situation.
The text of the first version is the standard text, with correct capitalization and punctuation,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:30:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What do the passages from a child's reading primer- at the begining of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/what-do-passages-from-childs-reading-primer-95941</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What do the passages from a child's reading primer- at the begining of the chapters - represent in the novel?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/what-do-passages-from-childs-reading-primer-95941</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:28:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mr. Henry (full name Henry Washington) is not part of the MacTeer...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/who-mr-henry-94239</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Mr. Henry (full name Henry Washington) is not part of the MacTeer family, but simply boards in their house.  Mr. Henry spends much of the book endearing himself to both Claudia and Frieda.  One of his more ingenious methods is to refer to them with the names of famous mid-century film stars such as Ginger Rogers or Greta Garbo.  One day, Henry gives the girls money to buy ice cream and sends them on their way.  When Claudia and Frieda...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 2 Aug 2009 18:07:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who is Mr. Henry in The Bluest Eye?
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        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/who-mr-henry-94239</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Who is Mr. Henry in The Bluest Eye?
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        <pubDate>Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:04:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The title refers to the desire of the central character, an African...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/what-significance-bluest-eye-91597</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The title refers to the desire of the central character, an African American girl named Pecola Breedlove, to have the bluest eyes in the world. Of course blue eyes commonly occur in Caucasians rather than people of African descent, and many examples are given in the novel of the African American characters admiring physical characteristics associated with Caucasians. These include the Shirley Temple cup (with white skin and blue eyes) owned by...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:49:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the significance of the title, The Bluest Eye?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/bluest-eye/q-and-a/what-significance-bluest-eye-91597</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the significance of the title, The Bluest Eye?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:23:57 PST</pubDate>
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