The Bluest Eye

             This story begins with Rosemary Villanucci, which is the neighbor of the
             MacTeer's, making fun of Claudia and Frieda MacTeer while she was sitting her
             nice little Villanucci's Buick. The girls were picking up coal that had fell out of the
             railroad cars. The house that they live in has quite a bit of space, but it is very old
             and has lots of bugs crawling around it. One day while the girls were gathering up
             some coal Claudia caught a nasty cold. Her mother was mad, but she was not mad
             at Claudia she was mad at the sickness. Claudia thinks that her mother is mad at
             her though. Her sister helps make Claudia feel better by singing to her. The
             MacTeers are getting a new tenant, Henry Washington. The girls heard their
             mother talking about him saying he was going to live with old Miss Della Jones.
             They also hear their mother say that he shouldn't live with her because she is old
             and senile. Mrs. MacTeer talked about how miss Jones's husband ran of and left
             her for another woman because he thought Miss Jones smelled too clean for him.
             Henry has never been married and he has a good rep of being a good worker and he
             can keep a job. When he gets there the girl love him because he always plays around
             with him and he likes to do magic tricks for them. He does the one where he makes
             the penny disappear and you have to find it.
             There is one more child that lives with the MacTeers her name is Pecola
             Breedlove. She is like the main character of the story. MacTeers has custody
             temporarily of her because her father is crazy and he burned their house down.
             Since she moved in with the MacTeers she love to drink milk out of a Shirley
             Temple cup. Claudia doesn't like Shirley Temple and she doesn't like the baby dolls
             she gets for Christmas because they have blonde hair and they have blue eyes. She
             destroys them every time she gets one claiming she doesn't ...

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