The Bluest Esyes

?Latishia Taylor fifth Hour AP English The House, the blue eyes, the marigolds. Oh My In the fabrication The Bluest Eye, there were a lot of roles of symbolism. Symbolism is the radiation pattern of encountering things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or signifi evictce to objects, events, or relationships. The title by itself starts withdraw one of the many symbols in the novel. Seeing the novel uses the singular take a leak of the word eye to transport many of the characters sad isolation. The symbols in this novel intend different meanings for each character.Some of the symbols are the bluest eyes, the house, the marigolds. The novels begins with a prologue, beginning with a sentence from a Dick-and-Jane narrative Here is the house(3). The piazzas in this novel do not only indicate the social economic status , but they also symbolize the emotional situations and set of the characters who inhabit them. For instance the Breedloves storefront apartme nts despicable and aged, suffering from Mrs. Breedloves preference for her employers home over her own. This symbolizes the misery of the Breedlove family.Their home lacks positive symbols such as the couch being approximation of as a comfort provider or the loving that has been conducted upon it, a bed being defined by someone giving birth in it. Just as the family has an ironic name they do the marrow opposite of their name the few household objects that they do possess a ripped couch, a cold stove, are symbols of suffering and degradation rather than of a home. The Breedloves apartment not only is considered ugly on their part but the community recognizes this also. The ugliness of the abandoned storefront and its defiance to blend in with the another(prenominal) buildings that surround it.This symbolizes the hideousness of the Breedloves story a story not only ab break the ugliness they establish but also to the highest degree the ugliness brought out against them. Just as the storefront has now been abandoned, they imbibe also been abandoned by the world around them. Unlike the Breedloves home the MacTeers is drafty and dark, but it is carefully tended by Mrs. MacTeer and. According to Claudia it is also filled with love, symbolizing their familys comparative cohesion. there is a young girl in this novel that goes a lot of complications. Her name is Pecola and she is the daughter of Mr. nd Mrs. Breedlove. Where she has one wish and that is to have the bluest eyes. When her parents get into arguments she lies in bed imaging that all(prenominal) her body separate are dissolving except for her eyes. Please,God, she whispered in the palm of her hand. Please make me dissappear(45). She hates her ugliness and for a long time she hoped and prayed for blue eyes, which will make her beautiful and change all the evil in her life to unassailable. To Pecola, the blue eyes symbolize the beauty and happiness that she associates with the white middle-class wor ld.They also symbolize her own blindness, for she gains blue eyes only at the cost of her sanity. Pecola decides that if she had beautiful eyes, her life would magically right-hand(a) itself. She wants blue eyes for two reasons so that she can change what she plays, and so that she can change how others see her. For Pecola, these reasons are interchangeable because she believes that how people see her as ugly, creates what she see hurtful behavior. At the end of the novel Pecola goes mad, believing that she has gotten the blue eyes that she has been wishing for. She also imagines up a n imaginary friend.Pecola can not stop admiring her eyes she claims that now she can even look at the sun without blinking. quite than granting Pecola insight into the world around her and providing a compensating connection with other people, these eyes are a form of blindness. Pecola can no longer accurately perceive the outside world, and she has become more invisible to others. He new friendship is only imagined and does not protect her from old suffering and insecurity. Even though she disposed(p) her wish of blue eyes, she still has scars deep down on the inside that wont reckon to just disappear.During the novel Pecola is also raped and impregnated by her father. The community thought she should be taken out of school and hoping that the baby doents not live. I thought about the baby that everybody wanted dead(190). When Claudia and Frieda heard about Pecola being impregnated by her father that felt the need to help her. At first they just thought to pray and ask God to let the baby live, but then they thought that wasnt passable so they decided to give up the bicycle they wanted, bury the silver and build the marigolds seeds. well bury the money over by her house so we cant go back and dig it up, and well plant the seeds out back of our house so we can watch over them. And when they come up, well know everything is all right. All right(192)? To Claudia an Frieda, they associated the marigolds with the safety and well-being of Pecolas baby. Their ceremonial offering of money and the remaining unsold marigolds seeds represent an honest sacrifice on their part. They believed that if the marigolds they had planted grew, then Pecolas baby would be all right.To Claudia s and Friedas disliking the flowers did not bloom and Pecolas baby died when it was prematurely born. From there forth on, they avoided Pecola Breedlove. In a more general sense, marigolds represent the constant renewal of nature. In Pecolas case, this cycle of renewal is twisted by her fathers rape of her. This novel consisted of a lot of symbolism. Most of which all were snarled with Pecola. In some shape, way, or form Pecola was affected by all the symbols in the novel. Some good effects, some bad effects, some had a little bit of the both effects.