Maureen Peal is “the dream child” (62), considered perfect. Why? What is it about her that would make her acceptable and desirable even today? Why is she particularly loved by the black community in the novel?

1. Maureen Peal as "the dream child" was considered "perfect" because she was from a wealthy home, had a cute and desirable skin colour and everyone wanted to be like her. She enchanted the school and commanded respect from both black and white boys.

2. Her wealth and cute light-skinned colour will make her to be acceptable and desirable even today. This was what the black girls, Pecola, Claudia and Frieda were wishing to possess in their own days.

3. She is particularly loved by the black community in the novel because of her skin-colour which made her cute and beautiful.

In the novel, the black community goes about with the adoration of white standards and they eventually neglect their own beauty which dwells in celebrating their black race. Such adoration affected their psche as Pecola gave a definition about beauty: to be beautiful is to have blue eyes.

Explanation:

"The Bluest Eyes" is a book by Toni Morrison which was published in 1970. The theme centres on racism and the oppression of women. It also depicted the several stages and phases of development that occurs in a woman during womanhood.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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