Key Moments
Who does Cholly compare his intimacy for Darlene with?
What is Pecola
The book is split up into...
What is seasons?
In what season/chapter did Claudia say this:
"So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die."
Autumn
The narrator of the book
What is Claudia?
What does ruined mean to the girls?
Being big and fat and drinking whiskey.
What did Pecola do to get slapped by Pauline?
What is spilling hot blueberries
What is a common theme found in the Spring section?
What is painful memories, sexuality, and innocence.
What does Pauline mean by this quote?
"She was secure and grateful; he was kind and lively. She had not known there was so much laughter in the world."
When she met Cholly, she finally felt like someone cared for her, this was her experience genuine joy and laughter for the first time.
Polly's maiden name
What is Pauline Breedlove/ Pauline Williams
The author of The Bluest Eye
What is Toni Morrison
Which character was wrapped in newspaper and tossed in a dumpster after he/she was born?
What is Cholly
Name an example of Springs overall theme in the chapter (Answers will vary)
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The Spring chapter represents____, this quote sums it up perfectly "Even now spring for me is shot through with the remembered ache of switchings, and forsythia holds no cheer." What does this quote represent for the rest of the chapter?
Rise of bad memories
Who is Cholly named after?
Charles Breedlove
The color worn by the Fishers daughter whom Pauline watches over
(Bonus 100 if you know what it represents)
What is Pink
What is Love, nurture, compassion
Claudia and Frieda's objective in section 1
(100 Bonus points for reason behind it)
What is getting Whiskey?
It will "eat up fat" (100% not true)
Which is true to Springs overall theme?
Claudia recalling her past whippings or...
The father beating Mr.Henry up
What is Claudia recalling her past whippings?
Who is this quote about?
"Her general feeling of separateness and unworthiness she blamed on her foot. Restricted, as a child, to this cocoon of her family's spinning, she cultivated quiet and private pleasures."
Pauline Breedlove
Who was Chollys mentor figure?
What is Blue Jack
The state that Pauline and Cholly moved to when they were newlyweds.
(Bonus 100 pts if you know the town)
What is Ohio
(What is Loraine, Ohio)
What happened when Pauline was giving birth to Pecola?
The doctors claimed she does not feel pain (even in delivery) because she is Black. Compared that Black women deliver babies "right away and with no pain. Just like horses." (125).
What do we learn during the conversation of Aunt Jimmy, Miss Alice and Mrs. Gaines on pg. 137-139?
(Bonus 300 pts if you know what it represents)
The hardships that the women went through.
It represents what it means to be a strong Black woman during that time. All of the pain they had to endure in order to be free, all of the orders they are given in a day by the people who overpower them. It connects with the harsh reality that many colored women went through these situations just to survive and maintain their households.
Who says: "Even now spring for m e is a shot through with the remembered ache of switchings, and forsythia holds no cheer."
Claudia
Who assaulted Frieda?
What is mr.henry
What was used to whip the girls in the spring differently than in other seasons?
Green Switches