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cbot
cbot
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High School - 10th Grade

What changes does the narrator Claudia, go through? What changes doesPecola go through?

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Posted by cbot on Sunday August 23, 2009 at 1:51 PM and tagged with the bluest eye.

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  1. brewingideas
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    High School - 12th Grade

    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 love because she was so shocked by her feelings about the dolls. She has become like every other adult around her.

    Pecola becomes insane. She has so much shame that she wishes for blue eyes. The blue eyes will make her beautiful. She is so traumatized at the end of the book that she believes she has blue eyes.

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    Posted by brewingideas on Monday August 24, 2009 at 12:01 PM