Good vs. Evil
Evil's audience's name.
What is blockbuster?
Where goodness lurks.
What is backstage?
Morrison was troubled about performances because they could only be put on if someone did this.
What is racializing performances?
This color and object represents life, birth, and natural order; a happy community where people can grow safely.
What is yellow and marigolds?
This symbol represents the ideal beauty standard at the time.
What is blue eyes?
What does Toni Morrison say while trying to convey the purpose of good vs. evil.
What is Evil has vivid speech, goodness bites his tongue?
Toni Morrison has tried to what in all her novels she's written.
What is writing and trying to find goodness?
The characters experienced this when they all went to get ice cream and they got into an argument.
What is internalized racism?
This color represents beauty and Pecola's desire to have a lighter skin tone. Pecola would drink this.
What is white and milk?
Pecola has a strong desire to be white because of this.
What is white gaze?
Toni Morrison was bored by the demonstrations of this act. She compares it to a top hat, cape, tuxedo, and a cane.
What is evil?
The kind of people goodness is typically found in.
What is unintelligent people?
The setting is in a poor black neighborhood in the 1940's to display this.
What is extreme amounts of segregation, discrimination, and violence?
This color represents innocence and youth. This color was never talked about harshly.
What is pink?
Because of their light skin, the characters believed that this is the social standard that guarantees goodness.
What is the good that comes from beauty?
Evil is a stronger power due to the fact that some people might lack this.
What is the lack of goodness in people?
Morrison uses narrative to give goodness language by doing this in the book.
What is the family being so open and helping Pecola in a time of need?
In her interview, Toni Morrison states that throughout her book,she uses this in order to idolize the white image.
What is white gaze?
This color represents the act of being miserable. Claudia describes her mother's voice with this color, why?
What is green? Claudia describes her mother's voice with this color because her mom is miserable that no man loves her. She was constantly complaining about no man loving her.
Claudia describes the dolls with this. Explain what this means.
What is hair of gold? Claudia explains how every girl wants the blue eyed, light skin, and light hair doll. This is the ideal doll that everyone wants because that was the beauty standard.