This chapter strongly depicted the unhealthy relationship the Breedlove family hs with each other. The build up of tension leads to physical, verbal, and mental damage. This family greatly contrasts the ideal American family. The greatest contrast in my opinion is the father. Ideally he is supposed to be strong, but in this family he is very weak by turning to lust, alcohol, and force to solve problems. This negatively impacts his entire family, so much to the point his own son wants him dead. This is depicted, “Sammy screamed, ‘Kill him! Kill him!’ “(pg 44).

In chapter 3, I began to feel sad of the Breedlove family. In this chapter the author announced that the Breedlove family was ugly because they thought that they were ugly. The whole home situation was just unsettling know that that Mr. and Mrs. Breedlove hated one another and fought all the time but had a unstated agreement not to kill each other. Also, Pecola thinking if she had blue eyes that her life would be better also was sadning because that isn’t a realistic idea or solution to her problems. Blue eyes don’t make your life perfect or easy.

In this chapter, the reader gains a lot of sympathy and emotion for Pecola because it describes how isolated and mistreated she is. She believes that she is ugly because she has this idea in her head of what beauty is and how she should look. Every person she encounters treats her horribly like her teachers and fellow classmates tease her and don’t go near her. The torture does not stop when she leaves school though, her parents fight constantly and she has to find a way to escape the craziness. Her siblings have their own ways of dealing with their home life and she too finds her own way of coping with the bitterness and obstacles in her life. She spends time with the women who live above her. They might not be the best role models for a growing young girl to be learning from but it gives her a sense of calm and a place to feel okay even for a little bit. The other thing Pecola does to try to help her is thinking of herself just disappearing. She says, “please God… Please make me disappear”. She sits in her room and closes her eyes and tries to picture herself slowly disappearing however, the only thing she can never see go away are her eyes. This also brings up a very important part in the book. She thinks she should have blue eyes to be beautiful. The blue eyes that Pecola mentions she wants to have are very significant and I have a feeling will be further explained in future chapters.

This chapter follows Pecola, and mostly focuses on her family situation, which is absolutely horrible. Her father and mother, Cholly and Mrs. Breedlove, fight constantly and violently. Cholly seems to always come home extremely drunk, and Mrs. Breedlove seems to give no love or compassion to her own children whatsoever. It’s extremely disheartening that Pecola can’t even feel enough love for her parents to call them mom and dad, and that she constantly wishes and says “please, God… Please make me disappear.” No person should ever feel that way, especially a child due to her family. Pecola is treated awfully by her family, her classmates, her teachers, and the world, and the only way she can think to fix it is by wishing for blue eyes. From reading the Dick and Jane book excerpt on page 46, we can see where Pecola got the idea that her eyes weren’t beautiful, and that only blue eyes were. I feel very bad for Pecola and how she is treated by others, and how she sees herself.

This chapter was all about Pecola. As the the chapter goes on the focus becomes more on Pecola. At the beginning of the chapter they talk about Pecola’s and the family’s “ugliness” which is a reference to racism. Also this chapter keeps with the dark and depressing tone. It has Pecola’s parents get into an altercation which turns physically abusive. The fighting leads to stress and anxiety for the children. Then Pecola buys candy from a shady man who seems to want to harm her. She lastly goes and hangs out with prostitutes because they are the few people who are nice to her.

This chapter is fully centered on Pecola, who I now believe is the main character. It opens with a discussion of the family’s “ugliness”, which refers to racism. Pecola clearly struggles with this all of the time. Her parents are violent towards each other, physically abusive, causing grief for the children. Pecola buys from candy from a man who is clearly seeing her as less than human. She then meets with some prostitutes who are kind to her.

“Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike. She was the only member of her class who sat alone at a double desk” (page 45).This chapter reveals the isolation that Pecola feels in every aspect of her life. At home, her parents fight constantly and her brother chooses to cope with his struggles in a different way than Pecola. When he makes plans to run away, he does not include Pecola, and because she is younger and female, she does not have the option to do so by herself. Additionally, she is mistreated at school by both the students and the teachers. She is forced to sit alone and the children make fun of her by using her name when teasing others. Even when she goes out in public, like when she went to the store to buy candy, she is not treated with any kind of respect. The man at the store is very rude to her because of his pre existing prejudices. The constant mistreatment makes Pecola feel and believe that she is ugly. The only place that she finds welcoming is the apartment above the Breedloves’. The women who live there are kind to Pecola, and although they may not be the best influences, she “loved them.” This chapter provokes a great deal of sympathy for Pecola as it reveals her isolating life.