A third-person narrator describes the violent, loveless home life Pecola deals with at her house and her efforts to change her eyes to blue ones through prayer. While staying with the MacTeers, Pecola got her first menstrual period. Pecola was placed with the MacTeers by social services after her father, Cholly Breedlove, burned down the family's apartment and beat his wife. That fall was also the first time Claudia heard the gossip about the Breedloves. In "Autumn," the first division of the novel, Claudia describes the fall of 1941 as a cold, lean one when the MacTeer house was cash-strapped due to cutbacks at the plant where Mr. The novel then moves to first-person narration by Claudia MacTeer, who explains that she has returned to Pecola's story in an effort to understand why and how such a tragedy could have occurred. The novel opens with sentences drawn from the Dick and Jane early reading primers. Morrison prefaces the novel with a Foreword in which she explains several of her choices in writing the novel.
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