understand why people
see the beauty in them, so she tries to find out herself. The grown people get mad at
her, but she tells them that no one ever ask her what she wants for Christmas. She
tells them that the reason that she hates the white dolls came from her hatred of
Mrs. MacTeer gets mad at Pecola because she had dunk just about three
quarts of milk. The girls knew their mother was mad so they went out on the porch
and sat on the steps to try to avoid her. Then something started to happen to Pecola.
She started to bleed in between her legs. Frieda knew what was going on so she gave
Pecola a pad. Rosemary was looking through the bushes next door and she went and
told Mrs. MacTeer that they was playing nasty. Mrs. MacTeer came outside and she
beat the heck out of Frieda. Then Mrs. MacTeer saw the pad and the girls had told
her what had happened. Mrs. MacTeer felt bad then she cleaned Pecola up. When
the girls had went to bed that night Pecola asks Frieda about how babies are made.
Frieda told her that you have to get someone to love you. Pecola then asked, "How
do you get someone to love you?"(pg. 32)
The apartment that the Breedloves lived in was once an old store. They
moved into the place when Cholly Breedlove, Pecola's father, got out of jail. The
store used to be a pizza parlor. Before it was a pizza parlor it was Hungarian bakery
and before that a Gypsy family lived there. When the Breedloves lived there no one
really knew, at least they didn't pay no attention to them. The store front was
divided into two rooms by some wooden planks. The front room had a piano, two
sofas, and it had an artificial Christmas tree that hadn't been taken down in two
years. The bedroom had beds for Pecola, her brother Sammy, their mom and dad,
and there was a temperamental coal stove. The kitchen was in another room in the
back. The reason for the B...