Summary Of Claudia Macteer - 2460 Words

Summary Claudia MacTeer is an adult, telling us about certain events that took place in the fall of 1941. She was a child back then, around nine years old, but she still remembered how the marigolds didn’t bloom that fall, and she and her sister thought it was probably because of their friend, Pecola, was having her father’s baby. She then tells us that Pecola’s father, Cholly Breedlove and the baby are dead. Then there’s the first season, a flashback, in Autumn in 1940, a year before the fall when no marigolds were blooming. Claudia and her older sister, Frieda, have just started school. That autumn the Macteers accepted Mr. Henry (Henry Washington) as a roomer because his rent would help pay the bills and also because his former roommate was too addled to keep up. Then the family soon after got another roomer, Pecola Breedlove, an eleven year old, dark- skinned girl whom county officials placed her there after her father burned the family’s house down. Pecola and the sisters then shared childhood adventures, and what Claudia remembers in particular is the startling onset of Pecola’s puberty when she unexpectedly first had her menstruation. The second narrator then talked about the memories of Pecola’s family. They described the house where the Breedlove’s lived (before Cholly burned it down), they were poor and they believed they were ugly. They also pointed out the horrible relationship between Pecola’s parents. Pecola also has a fourteen year old brother, Sammy, who keptShow MoreRelatedThe Cultural Identity Of The Strong Black Woman2874 Words   |  12 Pagesrelationship black women have with their children; especially with daughters. This is evident by Mrs. MacTeer’s relationship with her daughters, Claudia and Frieda in Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye. When Claudia is sick and vomits, Mrs. MacTeer shuns her and says that she does not have the time to clean Claudia’s mess. This impacts the way Claudia feels towards her mother, which is evident when she says: â€Å"My mother’s anger humiliates me; her words chafe my cheeks, and I am crying. I do not