 published in 1970

 language used is sexual and bold

 this is her personal life experience
 the narrator is Claudia
 first person point of view
 older sister Frieda
 the main setting most of the book is Ohio
 hardworking father n loving mother
 guy name henry Washington lives with them who supports them financially
 His intensions were not right and used to act innocent
 Pecola comes to live with them because her father Cholly burned his own house
 Claudia and Frieda and feel sympathy for Pecola
 Pecola's father was a drinker and was abusive
 and her mother Pauline did not care much about Pecola
 there used to be a lot of conflicts between Pecloa's parents and some were brutal
 Her older brother Samuel was also a victim of her parents conflicts and unlike Pecloa he was
fearless and ran out of the house 27 times due to the conflicts.
 Pecola used to blame herself for being dark
 Peloca used to think that all the people with dark skin were not treated respectfully
 she used to pray to god to get blue eyes thinking she would look beautiful and the society
would respect her
 Blue eyes are a symbol whiteness and beauty
 Cholly pecola's father was abandon by his family when he was young
 cholly pecola's father was caught by two white folks during his first sexual encouther and
then was forced into having coitus in front of them
 he developed haterade towards women due to that incident
 it could be possible that pecolas haterade towards dark skin tone could have been
heightened due to her mother's ideology and thinking
 pauline's pecola's mother thinks she was a sacrifice due to her sacrificing so much
 pauline works at a white family because she thinks that the non coloured people are treated
much more respectfully then the coloured people.
 during the time of spring pecola's father got over drunk and came, then he saw pecola in the
kitchen and because of his unstable emotion and the feel of guilt he was't able to control
and himself and raped his daughter.
 when pecola's mother got to know about unfaithful event she was being brutal towards
pecola instead of helping her and being against cholly.
 when pecola was sad she met a person named soaphead church who claimed to be a
magician and was west indian.
 then pecola requested him to give her blue eyes
 soaphead dilikes adults and like children because he is their body is cleaner.
 soaphead wanted to murder a dog so he tricks pecola saying if her feed her the thing (which
was poison)and the dog behaves wildly or weirdly then your wish will be complete.
 the two sisters claudia and frieda get to know by the locals that pecola is pregnant by her
father.
 the whole community wanted pecola's child to be dead or aborted expect claudia and freida
 claudia and freida burried their marigold seeds in pecola's yard wishing the flowers to bloom
when the child is born.
 the flowers never bloom and pecola's child died as soon as the child was born
 after that pecola became mentally unstable and started imagineing that she had blue eyes
then she started roaming around in her own imaginary world which she made by her
madness
 marigold flowers symbolise life and birth.
 she continually receives confirmation of her own sense of ugliness—the grocer looks right
through her when she buys candy, boys make fun of her, and a light-skinned girl, Maureen,
who temporarily befriends her makes fun of her too.
 She is wrongly blamed for killing a boy’s cat and is called a “nasty little black bitch” by his
mother.
 Cholly, who rapes Pecola a second time and then runs away, dies in a workhouse.
 Pecola goes mad, believing that her cherished wish has been fulfilled and that she has the
bluest eyes.