The Bluest Eye video remix

Literature Analysis Mindmap

http://www.mindmeister.com/148673400#

The Bluest Eye Notes

The Bluest Eye

Chapter 1:

·         Claudia and Frieda McTeer are expected to pick up coal from a fallen train

·         Live in a spacious, old, drafty home

·         Henry moves in with McTeer family and the kids immediately love him

·         Pecola Breedlove lives with them temporarily because her father burnt their home

·         Claudia explain that Pecola always hated Shirley Temple and destroyed her doll

·         Pecola starts her period and Mrs. McTeer trues explaining what happened to her and gives her a pad

·         Pecola asks Frieda how babies are born and she responds by saying you must find someone to love you first

Chapter 2:

·         Once Cholly Breedlove, Peocla’s dad, gets out of jail the family moves into a home that was once a store

·         Was a home of a gypsy home then a Hungarian bakery and then a pizza parlor then store then their home

·         Has a bedroom where all the beds are and then a kitchen which is a back room

·         Narrator focuses on the furniture

*feels it’s all meaningless except for the couch that has a split, makes the owner mad

·         The coal stove only works when it wants to

·         The fire would never work in the mornings

Chapter 3:

·         The Breedloves live in the store front because they are black and poor

·         They believe they are ugly but have some nice aspects

·         Mrs. Breedlove is making breakfast and wakes Cholly to fetch coal but he refuses

·         She says that if she sneezes whole getting the coal he is in trouble

·         Mrs. And Mr. Breedlove need each other, he uses her to take all his painful memories away

·         Their fights have a usual routine, Sammy her brother either joins the fights or leaves home

·         Mrs. Breedlove sneezes and she knocks Cholly out then Sammy urges her to kill him

*She quiets Sammy

·         Pecola feels sick and wants her body to dissolve

·         She always hopes for blue eyes because she feel all of her problems will disappear with them

·         She goes to the grocery store to buy a candy and the owner speaks to her harshly

·         She walks home ashamed of how she looks

·         Pecola visits the “whores” who live above her

·         They tell her about their “boyfriends” Clients and that makes her wonder what love truly is

Chapter 4:

·         New Girl named Maureen Peal joins the school, she is wealthy and light skinned

·         Claudia and Frieda dislike her and they look for flaws in her

·         Claudia, Frieda, and Maureen walk home together and they find some boys picking on Pecola

·         They try to help her and the boys leave when Maureen joins because they don’t want to fight with her around

·         They go out for ice cream but Maureen only treats Pecola for ice cream so Claudia doesn’t get any

·         Maureen asks Pecola if she has seen a naked man and Pecola says no

·         Maureen tells them that they are black and ugly

·         Henry gives Claudia and Frieda money to go but candy and when they return they find him with prostitutes

·         They decide to keep his secret and not tell their mom

Chapter 5:

·         They talk about a black woman that lives in a  rural area of town and takes good care of herself

·         She marries a man and bares children

* She does not enjoy sex and is only passionate about her cat, not her family,

·         Junior, Gerdalines son, picks on Pecola at the park

·         He lures Pecola into his home and throws a cat at her

·         She is frightened at first but then plays with the cat, and he gets jealous

·         He then throws the cat and kills it

·         His mom walks in and he blames Pecola for the cats death she yells at her and makes her leave

Chapter 6:

·         Claudia gets a home and finds her mom singing and repeating the same chore twice

·         Frieda is upstairs crying because Henry touched her breast

·         The McTeers attack Henry when he returns home and a neighbor hands Mr. McTeer a gun

·         A neighbor suggest they take Frieda to the doctor because she might be “ruined”

·         Frieda and Claudia think that whisky will help her jot be ruined

·         They go to Pocola’s home to ask her to get some from her dad but she isn’t home

·         One of the “whores” throws soda and them, because they tell her she’s ruined

·         They find Pecola working in a white neighborhood and her mom days they can wait for her to be finished

·         Pecola ends up dropping a pie and her mom beats her and sends the girls away

Chapter 7:

·         Mrs. Breedlove grew up in Alabama and she walks with a limp because when she was younger she stepped on a nail

·         She raised her younger siblings in Kentucky and enjoyed it

·         At the age of 15 she dreamt of a stranger coming to rescue her

·         Cholly falls in love with her

·         They get married and move to Ohio where the woman who live there are not nice

·         Soon they argue about  money and his drinking becomes a problem

·         She gets her first job as a housekeeper

·         Cholly shows up to her work drunk and the boss refused to pay her until she leaves Cholly but she doesn’t wan to leave him

·         She becomes pregnant and marriage improves for a while

·         Baby doesn’t fill the hole in her heart and they have a second (Pecola)

·         She knows the baby is ugly

·         Obtains a job with the Fishers and she loves it because they appreciate her work

·         She begins to neglect her own family and things are not the same with Cholly

Chapter 8:

·         Cholly was abandoned by his mother at 4 days old

·         Aunt Jimmy saves him and beats his mom who leaves

·         He obtains a job and meets Blue Jack who is very kind to him

·         Aunt Jimmy gets sick but is cured for a while until she eats a Peach Cobbler

·         Everyone is kind to him during the funeral and it is planned that he will now live with Aunt Jimmy’s brother

·         Tries impressing his older cousin by taking him to girls

·         They both get girls to walk with them

·         He ends up having sex with Darleen and white hunters see them and force him to keep going while they watch

·         He grows anger towards Darlene instead of the white men

·         Thinks Darlene might be pregnant so he ;leaves town to find his father

·         When he finds his father he curses at him and rejects him

·         Cholly ends up loving g and beating woman, taking and leaving jobs, and killing three white men

·         Likes Pauline’s sweetness and innocence but feels trapped din marriage

·         Cholly comes home and rapes his wife, she faints and wakes with her mother over her

Chapter 9:

·         Soaphead church- reader, adviser, and interpreter of dreams

·         Mother died when he was born and family is mixed in race

·         Soaphead married Velma who left him two months after

·         Then goes into ministry but it isn’t for him

·         Moved to Lorain and rents a room with an elderly lady

·         Pecola asks him for blue eyes and he says if she gives the dog meat “poisoned” her dream, will come true

·         The dog dies and she runs away

·         Writes a letter to god where get shares he is sad that Velma left him, feels rejected

·         Talks about his love for young girls, he is a pedophile

·         Lady discovers dead dog while he is asleep

·         Pecola will not have blue eyes but she will believe that she does

Chapter 10:

·         During summer time Claudia and Frieda sell marigold seeds to raise money for a bike

·         Go door to door and when invited in overhear adults conversations

·         Discover that payola got pregnant from her dad and he has run away

·         Mother beats her almost to death when she finds out

·         Pecola believes the baby will be beautiful

·         Claudia and Frieda want to help her by praying and planting the money they earned by her home

Chapter 11:

·         Pecola and her imaginary friend are talking and the voice judges her constantly for staring at herself

·         Pecola admirers her blue eyes

·         Imaginary friend accuses her of liking sex with her dad which happened multiple times

·         Pecola continues to bring up her eyes and wonders if anyone gas blue eyes

·         Her friend gets annoyed and leaves

·         Pecola goes crazy and her baby dies prematurely

·         Cholly dies in a work house

·         Mrs. Breedlove and Pecola move to the edge of town

·         Everyone feels ugly now that Pecola is gone because they would compare themselves to her

·         Claudia and Frieda feel like failures because their plans never grew

Literature Analysis: The Bluest Eye

1.       The novel The Bluest eye takes place after the great depression and describes the life of African Americans. The main characters are Claudia, Frieda, and Pecola. Claudia and Frieda are sisters and they meet Pecola when she and another man named Henry move into their home for a while. At first they are hesitant about Pecola but soon begin to help her and guide her. Pecola is obsessed with having blue eyes and blonde hair like Shirley Temple. Pecola is also very troubled because of the family she comes from, her parents constantly argue and the arguments constantly turn violent. One day Pecola is rapped by her father, Cholly, and she becomes pregnant. Everyone in the neighborhood judges her and her mother even beats her. The neighborhood hopes her baby dies but Claudia and Frieda hope otherwise. The baby ends up dying because it was born prematurely. After her child’s death Pecola goes mad and believes everyone hates her because her blue eyes are so beautiful.

2.       The theme of this novel is lack of love. This is constantly seen with every character in the novel. Not only does Pecola not receive love from her own family but the community doesn’t show her love either. Her parents did not receive much love when they were growing up which explains why they can’t show love to their own children. The lack of love which Pecola receives ends up driving her crazy and to hating herself so much.

3.       Toni Morrison uses first person point of view which gives us an inside look to the novel. It makes it be that much more interesting and detailed. Her tone is melancholy and through every event we foreshadow something bad resulting from it. Some of the examples in the novel are “All he would do was get drunk sand beat her.” Also “although his income was small he had no taste for luxury.”

4.       The literary techniques that Morrison used that helped me better understand the novel were foreshadowing, diction, dialect, and imagery. The foreshadowing allowed us to get a heads up for all of the bad things to come. The dialect used allowed me as a reader to be able to get a better understanding of the characters. The imagery made the reading become more realistic and the diction was very simple which made reading enjoyable.

No More Structure:

Seminar Notes:

·         Imaginative play is what makes children think more

·         Over bearing a child will result in them being socially awkward

·         It’s best if children learn from their own mistakes instead of someone being there nand doing everything for them

·         Some guidance and support is necessary

·         When you apply a learning experience to ypur life it helps you remember it better

·         Schools now are like building blocks, you build of off the base structure

·         Being forced to do something you don’t weant to do will make ou not remember that task for a long time

·         In order to be creative and make something big put of little things you have to go in with a good mind set

·         Kids don’t enjoy school because kids are not given the opportunity to be creatoive and do what they want

Paragraphs:

1.       We tend to learn many new things in life that we at times choose to forget and at other times to remember forever.  From today’s Socratic Seminar and yesterday’s article as well as video I have begun to look at learning in a different way. I know see that learning needs to be done with a good mind set and there needs to be some creative space. When grades begin to not matter it all goes back to creativity and liberty in order for something to be done right. If I needed to do something and a grade would not be related to it I would need to use my creative side in order to get it done.

2.       All of the concepts that we have been learning lately can be applied to almost any hurdle that we have in life. At the current time one of the main hurdles that we have to overcome is the AP exam. We can apply all of the learning habits to this. For example, I have learned that working with others is good because you get different inputs that you would have never thought of before.

3.       These concepts that we have learned can be shared in many ways but the most obvious way is through the internet. The internet contains so much information already and so many people use it. Just as we discover new things on it every day we can share things on it. The ideas that we put on there can later be used by others and the ide will be carried on. The internet would be a great place to share all of our concepts.

Socratic Seminar on Learning Notes

Notes on Video:

·         Every effort that wants to be made in the world starts with asking questions

·         How can we all sit together and discuss all of the questions that we have

·         There’s a table of free voices where they all gather and answer chosen question together

·         Their idea sounds like something we are capable of doing in our own class

·         All of the answers were available on the internet and could be used by anyone

Notes on article:

·         Imaginative play is better for our society it helps with emotional and cognitive development

·         kids and animals who don’t play become anxious and socially maladjusted

·         Stuart Brown discovered that murderers didn’t play as kids and came from abusive homes

·         Many of Browns studies and interviews prove that “free-play” Is necessary

·         Children do not play when they are undernourished or in stressful situations

·         People become socially competent  by playing and learning naturally kit cannot be taught

·         Children use more sophisticated language when playing with other children than when playing with adults

·         Children who attend play-oriented preschools are more likely to be social and get in less trouble than those who attended instruction oriented preschools

·         A study was done where young kids who were anxious were split half played with toys and half listened to a story the ones who played alone became less anxious than those who listened to the story

·         A study done with rats suggest that playing releases anxiety

·         Plat relieves stress, develops social skills, and makes kids stronger

·         Play comes very naturally to the rain and it is in the stem of the brain which means that is has been around since the beginning of time

·         Play also helps in figuring how to solve random situations in the future

·         “Curiosity, imagination and creativity are like muscles: if you don’t use them, you lose them.” –Elkind

EE Cummings poem comparison:

·         The princess is the person who likes the poem

·         The poems are the “ignorant servants”

·         Saying that some of his own poems are ignorant and possibly not clearly thought out

Zen Coan:

·         Playing with a question creates a learning experience because it allows the brain to process everything and eliminate ideas. It makes the brain think outside the box and really think about what the question is as well as the answer. It also makes the person over think many things which might lead to a new question or even a new idea.

Three Poem Remix

The Lamb

1.       The dramatic situation is the lamb not knowing who made it.

2.       The structure is every two lines rhyming.

3.       The theme is knowing ones origins.

4.       The grammar and meaning is old English and simple.

5.       The images is the lamb and the scenery.

6.       The diction is simple old English style.

7.       The tone is curious.

8.       The main literary techniques are personification and repetition.

9.       The prosody has a flow to it.

Life in a love

1.       The dramatic situation is falling in and out of love.

2.       The structure is sonnet formation.

3.       The theme is love.

4.       The grammar and meaning is easy to read with vivid pictures of what is going pn.

5.       The images are the “fear” and “repetition of love”.

6.       The diction is confusing but understandable.

7.       The tone is loving and dramatic.

8.       The main literary technique rhymes.

9.       The prosody flows throughout and rhymes.

Infant Sorrow

1.       The dramatic situation is the birth of a young boy.

2.       The structure is in couplets.

3.       The theme is the joy of life.

4.       The grammar and meaning is simple, clear, and meaningful.

5.       The images are vivid and clear.

6.       The diction is loud.

7.       The tone is serious.

8.       The literary technique is imagery.

9.       The prosody is clear with a meaningful flow.