Comparison between The Bluest Eyes and I Locked Myself Upon My Door

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Comparison between The Bluest Eyes and I Locked
Myself Upon My Door

• View points toward different races
• The blacks to the whites
• Ambiguous feeling combining with both love and
  hatred
• Example Shirley Temples
• The whites to the blacks
• Regard them as a different kind (inferior bred)
• Example calls them Negro, refuse to live or work
  together

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• Attitudes towards Marriage
• The blacks
• Women see it as an escape from previous situation
• Example Pecolas mother has an illusion that
  Cholly will save her out of misery
• The whites
• Both men and women have some sort of expectation
  toward marriage (like reputation, loveetc.)
• Example George feels disappointed (or lost) when
  not finding love from his wife

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• Attitudes towards Religion
• The blacks
• Going to church makes them feel better about
  themselves and more secure or comfortable in the
  society
• The whites
• Believing in God was never a questioned issue a
  devout Christian receives respect and reputation
  in the public

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Changes in Calla

• Emotionally
• strong and fierce emotion and desire
• -- her heart beating rapid as pain with desire
  with what she had not known was desire (56)
• -- Its true here is no shame in me only
  hunger (57)

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• Physically
• becoming a real woman
• -- now she was a mature woman (59)
• enjoying making love with Tyrell

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A Different Experience of Pregnancy

• With George
• merely family obligation
• indifferent to her three children
• seeing them as intrusions into her peace

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• With Tyrell
• seed she really wants
• pregnancy a fevered condition
• in her womb her lover is mysteriously inside her

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The Relationship between the Narrator and
CallaNarrators complicated emotional
contradiction and identification
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• Blood
• The narrator finds it hard to identify with Calla
  in Part I (p.5)
• The narrator mentioned Grandmother in Part III
  (p.85, 98)

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• Womanhood
• The Voice in Part II chap.27 (Ithe first person)
• Less Judgment in Part II (p.65)
• Family Obligation (p84, 89)
• Sympathy? (p.90)
• The talk between them (p9798)