Okay, so after finishing the book, I have a series of questions that may or may not be answered, either here on the blog or in our next class, regardless, I hope someone can help me in shedding some light on the matter.
During the last few pages, Claudia and Pecola are conversing about her new blue eyes and how much prettier a person, and better person she will be, now that she has them. However, as we all know due to genetics, you can't simply change eye color, especially through prayer. So, is Claudia saving Pecola's feelings and making her believe she has blue eyes, or has Pecola become so traumatized with everything she's experienced that she convinced herself she has blue eyes?
Both of these are loaded questions, but it wouldn't be too far off, since the narrator describes Pecola going mad, or losing her mind, at the end of the novel. But why, or how, does she lose her mind? I feel like the book presents more questions than answers when you come to the conclusion.
What do y'all think?
Yeah that was little confusing, but I think its more of a mental trauma that causes her to imagine finally having her blue eyes
ReplyDeleteClaudia does suggest that she is not longer stable, going through garbage and what not, so it is more than likely that she has lost some form of sanity and suffered something mental. So then is Claudia then just saving her feelings, or is she equally as convinced. I know when I was a kid, when a friend kept prying at a topic, I would eventually give in to shut them up, and I feel that's what she's doing
ReplyDeleteYes, Pecola loses her grip on reality; but, based on what we know about her life, is her reality the kind of world she should want to inhabit? How do the blue eyes transform her world as she has has known it? What do they mean to her? If she now sees through blue eyes, what does she see that she didn't see before?
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