At home, Claudia and Frieda encounter Henry with two of the prostitutes introduced earlier in the novel. The girls have a falling out with Maureen and Maureen calls them ugly. On the walk home from school one day, Frieda, Claudia, and Maureen stop a group of boys from bullying Pecola. The new girl at school, Maureen Peal, enchants her classmates and is the envy of Frieda and Claudia. Pecola visits the three prostitutes that live above her family’s storefront apartment. Pecola longs to be like the blue eyed blonde haird girl on the candy wrapper. Later, a store clerk refuses to fully acknowledge Pecola when she is purchasing candy. While her parents were fighting, Pecola prays for blue eyes and says that she has been praying for that for years. Pecola describes her previous living situation to the reader. Two major moments in Pecola’s maturation occur – Pecola receiving her first period – When Pecola and Claudia begin to wonder how they could get someone to love them. The novel begins with the Macteer household gaining two new members, Mr. Claudia, the narrator of the prologue, believes that there were no marigolds in the Fall of 1941 because Pecola was having her father’s baby Tkachuk 1 Elona Tkachuk Professor Pickrel English 1A 17 March 2014 The Bluest Eye as a Banned Book The Novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is a great book. The prologue begins by describing a picturesque family and their house. Most recent example: – Challenged in 2012 in Connecticut’s Brookfield High School curriculum a whopping 52 percent of banned or challenged books from 2006 to 2016 included diverse content. Challenged and banned by several school districts for its explicit sexual content. 
Has received the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize in Literature among other awards.
The first, The Bluest Eye was published in 1970.African-American novelist, editor, and professor.Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye A presentation by SungHyeog Park, Jackie Scher, and Dylan Fowler
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