20. The Bluest Eye _ Volume 3: Spring

This section contains pages 97 to 183.

The section opens with the scene which Mr.Henry touches Frieda's breasts.(the actual word for that scene is "picking at" ). Frieda2s dad beats up Mr.Henry and this is the actual event that we see her dad's existence.

After this "picking at" they decided not to become ruined like the Miss Marie. So they go to talk to Pecola to convince her to steal some whiskey from her dad. At this point of the novel Morrison tries to show us the inequalities between the whites and the blacks. There is a long descriptive paragraph that describes the differences such as houses, pathways etc., but the one about the sky "The orange-patched Sky of the steel-mill section never reached this part of town."

There are some major ironies in this section such as;

• When Pecola pour the pot of blueberries Pauline(Polly) slaps her although her own daughter got burnt from the pot and instead she takes care of the little girl of the Fisher's.
• The white child is being raised by a black woman which was common at those times.
• Pauline takes care of that house more than she does for her own.

Later we see how Pauline and Cholly love each other and how their relation ship grow. There is a sexual part where the writer uses the inconvenient phrase "he puts his thing inside me" to explain how Pauline considers sex which is the sex is the only time where and when they share "something" together with fake orgasms and fears of children might hear them with of course, feeling the burden of "he must have come first".

Pauline has a limped foot and her 2 teeth has fell so these physical features of her make her feel insecure of herself and lonely.



Then the author decides to talk about Cholly and his childhood.When her mother decides to throw him, his Aunt Jimmy take care of him and raised him. After his aunt's death he falls into a deep hole and don't know where to go & what to do. So he decides to find his father. In the mean time, we see 2 white men with a "flashlight" telling him to continue to have sex with Darleen with high laughter and -this is the part where i find most bizarre- he obeys them but hates Darleen but not them.
I think this event affects him bad sexually and we can understand it by the quote; "In a dream his penis changed into a long hickory stick, and the hands caressing it were the hands of M'Dear." (p. 139)

19. The Bluest Eye _ Volume 2: Winter

This section contains pages 61-93.

We meet some new characters and one of them is Maureen Peal.

Maureen Peal: " A high-yellow dream child with long brown hair braided into 2 lynch ropes that hung down her back.She was rich, at least by our standards... The quality of her clothes threatened to derange Frieda and me."
By this quote we can have a general idea bout her. She has green eyes and she is light-black skin(she is hybrid). Everyone thinks that she is cute. Claudia and Frieda hate her - they call them Meringue Pie- but eventually they and she save Pecola from bullying.After that Maureen call them nigger and that is on page 73 which is a symbol of degree of blackness and racist self-hatred.

Another important quote is on page 74. "Dolls we could destroy, but we could not destroy the honey voices of parents and aunts ... the Maureen Peals of the world."

By this quote we can easily see that Claudia don't agree with the world that beauty comes with the word "white" and she denies that white dolls are beautiful and her hatred against Maureen is because of her white features.

On page 77, we can see the sexual awakening of Claudia by " A cold wind blew somewhere in me, lifting leaves of terror and obscure longing." she thinks that when she sees Mr.Henry licking Miss Marie's fingers.

The word FUNK means -according to the text- the black features.


Geraldine: she migrates from south to north to find jobs. she has a son Louis Junior and a cat. she loves her cat more than her son. she does not enjoys having sex with her husband and acts like she is having orgasm.


We can see the "winter"ness of this section by the last sentence of the section; "But she could not hold it low enough to avoid seeing the snowflakes falling and dying on the pavement."

18. The Bluest Eye _ Volume 1: Autumn

This section contains pages 9-58. the author introduces us with her characters; the MacTeers, the Breedloves, and the 3 whores. Now lets have a deeper look:

The MacTeers:

• Claudia, 9-year old girl, the narrator
• frieda, her sister, 10 year old girl
• Big Mama
• Mr. Henry, the roomer
• Rosemary Villanucci, white neighbour who eats bread

The Breedloves:

• Sammy, 14 year old boy
• Pecola, 11 year old
• Mrs. Breedlove, mom
• Cholly, the dad, alcoholic
  

They call their mom with her name because of respect and fear, but we would see later a surprise about that :D
The surname is ironic because in family they don't breed love, they always fight instead

The 3 Whores:

• China
• Poland, who sings blues
  
• Miss Marie, fat one

There are some important quotes and phrases that help us to understand the meanings of the "underneath text" better

1. White doll - p. 22
2. Mary Janes - p.49-50
3. Coal Stove - p. 37
4. Ministratin - p. 31
5. Ugliness - p. 38-39

There are also lots of songs in this chapter which i will mention later.
The writer uses a lot of slangs of black people which will make the readers' attention alive all the time.
The story seems interesting so far and we will see what the future will bring =))

17. Who shoots the Elephant?

With the helps of a small research; =))

"The elephant is an important symbol because it is a possible hazard. How?"

The elephant could easily kill people and cause great damage and losses to property when he gets loose in the bazaar. The elephant's "escape" is akin to the political problems of the Burmese who are under English control.

The analysis of themes here at eNotes explains the hazard the elephant causes this way:

"Order prevails when the mahout (elephant handler) ties up the elephant and keeps him under control; disorder prevails when the elephant slips his keeper and ravages the bazaar. A policeman, too, is a keeper of order, which is why Orwell’s narrator cannot avoid the unpleasant duty of shooting the elephant. Not to do so would be to condone disorder and provoke it even further, by appearing to be unwilling to carry out official violence against the disruption of daily affairs. Disorder is a type of violence within the daily round, dissolving the habitual peace. Disorder-as-violence can only be halted by a supplementary administration of violence, and even the narrator admits that this supplement is morally dubious, no matter how practical or necessary it might be. Disorder-as-violence appears on many occasions directed against the British, as when random Burmese spit betel juice on passing European women, as when Buddhist priests laugh spitefully at the narrator, as when the umpire on the playing field looks conveniently the other way while a Burmese player fouls the very same narrator. But this disorder also quells a possibly greater disorder, that of general rebellion against the British. Order, it appears, calls for a strange and paradoxical use of disorder to satisfy rebellious urges which would otherwise grow strong and run amok like a rogue elephant."

Sources:

http://www.enotes.com/shooting-elephant/16206

A call to end imperialism, "Shooting an Elephant", ironically, appeals to the British to cease colonialism to maintain their freedom.

We can clearly see that there are 2 major symbols;
1-racism- because Indian people were thrown into the second plan
2- the elephant: British Imperialism

16. Presantation - The Lottery

We presented "the Lottery" on 5 April at the VERY morning:D It was good i guess- the audience and Sonja tried very hard though..=)) But Sonja thanks a lot for your useful feedback which are;

Positive points

• Friendly, enthusiastic, good audience interaction
• Relevant comparison to Hanife which elicited audience participation
  
• Good audience questions
• Good thematic analysis

Points to improve

• What about a thesis?
  
• The summary should be interactive
• Would have been nice to define Gothic and point out some themes in our story
• A bit more sociohistoric context would have been helpful: how was "The lottery" received? What motivated Jackson to write it?
  
• Perhaps a separate slide to develop the ironies - there were many, as you mentioned

Some major points about the text;

1. IRONY:

• The day of the lottery was a sunny day but the action itself was depressing.

2. The black wooden box represents the old traditions that the villagers dont want to change.

3. The black dot represnets the theme of "scapegoatism"

4. THEMES:

• violence and cruelty
• custom and tradition
• victimization
• gender roles

15. Güldünya & Hanife - what a coincidence...

Hanife was killed by hanging on a poplar tree and after she was stoned; where as Güldünya was killed in a hospital in the 3. attempt of her family. Hanife is not a real person but Güldünya is; it was a great loss for the world to loose her... especially if she goes by leaving her precision son alone in this fucked-up world... So my dearest people of the East! Lets educate ourselves to stop the honor crimes.Our daughters are precious and be aware of it...




Here is a song about an Eastern woman; Ünzile...

Ünzile insan dölü
On kardeş beşi ölü
Büyüdükçe unufak
Ve gelir de görücü
İnci gibi dişi
Görücü bilir işi
Söğüdüm ağlar gider
Olur hatun kişi
Varmadan sekizine
Ergin oldu ünzile
Hem çocuk hem de kadın
Onikisinde ana
Bir gül gibi al ve narin
Bir su gibi saydam ve sakin
Susar kadın ünzile
Yağmuru kim döküyor
Ünzile kaç koyun ediyor
Dayaktan uslanalı
Hiçbir şey sormuyor
Korkar durur gitmez
Köyün en son çitine
İnanır o sınırda
Dünyanın bittiğine
Ünzile insan dölü
Bilinmezlere gebe
Sırların mihnetini
Yükleyip de beline
Varmadan sekizine
Ergin oldu ünzile
Hem kadın hem de çocuk
Onikisinde ana
Bir gül gibi al ve narin
Bir su gibi saydam ve sakin
Susar kadın ünzile

14. Mutluluk [Happiness]

Mutluluk is a movie of an honor crime which was directed to awaken the public to stop those silly crimes which were done to save the family's name...


I love the movie, the scenes are so real that the director wants them to slap onto the audiences' faces...

Özgü Namal played a 17-year-old girl-victim- who is raped by her uncle and her family accused her for dirtying their family's name.She couldn't hang herself so its Cemal- the big son of the Uncle- duty to "finish her job..." but when they go to Istanbul he saved her from her death because his heart couldn't do it...


So their journey began in a famous teacher's yacht as servants.What happened on the yacht connected Cemal and Meryem for good...

I recommend this film to everyone and i also suggest you to watch it at least to have an idea what the Eastern girls of Turkey have to bear.