Pecola

In the Bluest Eyes, Pecola is a black skinned girl that craves for lighter skin and blue eyes. In one of the events that happened in the book, a new girl came to school and she was black. But she had light skin and a lot of people liked her. Even in class, when the teachers asked people to sit with the new girl, they wouldn't mind. But Pecola always sat on her own. Just because the girl had lighter skin, she started calling Pecola and her other friends ugly and dark. This showed us how back then, lighter skin people thought they had more power than darker skin blacks.