Please answer questions explicitly, not in one sentences or one word responses. The only source you need to reference is the The Bluest Eye Novel,
which was emailed to you on Canvas and located in the Assignment section of this class. You may use the novel to support your answers by
indicating the page number and placing words from the text in quotation (ie. According to pg 55. "Pecola….") and explain your answer in your own
words. PLAGIARIZED WORK WILL RECEIVE AN AUTOMATIC "F".
Read 110-131.
We are told that Pauline and Cholly once loved each other (115). What happened?
Discuss Pauline’s loneliness, her lack of friends, her faith, and what she learns from the movies.
Connect all of it to Cholly: his work, his friends, his drinking, his fear of being tied down. Combined,
come to a conclusion about the state of their relationship as we currently see it.
What type of man is Cholly? Cite specific examples while expressing your opinion of him.
What is Pauline like in the Fisher home? Contrast her in the Fisher home with the woman she becomes in her own home? Why the dramatic change?
Once again, connect this change to the major themes we’ve been discussing in class.
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