22. The Bluest Eye part 4

I realized that writer tries to show us by giving the events before and then she gave us why characters such as Cholly and Pauline behave like that because first we see the events and then we read their story and understand that is why they're acting like that.

I think writer does that because she wants to create a picture of having streotyping or how having negative ideas could affect people. If we consider that information which I realized may be you can see that too. You know black people suffered so much and also they still have some problems because many people have an idea about black people. I think it still affects people's behaviour in America.

In briefly, I realized that first you read the events and with having these informations you could have bad impression but actually it would not be right because they are not like that. I mean If you have some ideas for other people, you could affect from that ideas and after a while you could understand these ideas are bad because they have some gaps. These gaps would fulfilled only your feelings about them.

Writer uses that gaps and she tries to show that thing is bad because many people suffered from that ideas in different ways like Cholly.

21. The Bluest Eye part 3 "American Dream"

In the book, there is a strict distinction between black people's living conditions and white people's living condition. We can also see that distinction is showing from their sky. White people's living area has blue sky but black people's living area is more polluted than white's. That distiction helps to understand that the theme of discrimination.

In addition in the book there is some detailed explanations about families appereance because there is American Dream and it includes a perfect family, mother takes care of their children and father who works all day and then would come to the home, children who go to the school from their marvelous house. Geraldine's family is one example of perfect family in the book I think because Geraldine,mother of Junior,is married with Louis and she has a cat. They live in nice house,next to playground of Washington Irving school. Her house is too clean and arranged.Here is the American Dream.

20. The Bluest Eye part 2 "American Beauty"

This the part which is I'm going to talk about American Beauty.

In the book, beauty is one of it's themes and one of the main character is so ugly than you can imagine and that girl who is I'm talking about Pecola. Pecola wants to her eyes turns into "Blue" because there is streotyping about ideal women. If you want to be look like ideal women, you should have blond hair with blue eyes and having a pretty appereance. (I mean girl/woman would have look like Beyonce:)You know Beyonce has big lips and hip, So she has all black people's physical appearence.Besides that the first part of the book is telling about ideal beauty because when Pecola had a chrismas gift, she had a baby doll and then she got angry with that.Nobody had to give a gift for her and she did not want to have a baby doll because there was ideal beauty.(page 19,20,21)

Also there was idealization of black people.There is "funk" word I think it means being black and it refers to form of black people's appereance. "... They hold their behind in for fear of sway too free; when they wear lipstick, they never cover the entire mouth for fear of lips too thick, and they worry, worry, worry about edges of their hair"( pg. 83).

At the end of the book, Pecola would has blue eyes and she would become "mad" because writer tries to show us that beauty is not a good thing because it is destructive and changes people to people.

19. The Bluest Eye part 1

The week which we past and in the spring break, we read the book which is called The Bluest Eye. It was a great book because I think writer wants to show how people are divided into two parts in their country and how it affects the people who are discriminated from other which they think they are superior one.The part, which Pecola was delivering her father's baby and she got the birth but after a while she lost her baby and then she became mad, is most effective part in the book, I guess because there was writer themes, which are discrimination, beauty and lack of love. For discrimination we can see the part of there was a gossip about Pecola and her father. That gossip affected Pecola I guess because she became mad and she had an imaginary friend. She told her all problems to her imaginary friend.We can see that froming of imaginary friend causes of lack of love and discrimination because she had nobody to talk with her. The gossip affected her friend's relationship with her in terms of bad way because they began not to talk with Pecola.

Meanwhile Claudia could not escape from thinking of Pecola's baby because Pecola was ugliest one and her baby would be ugly than her and that's why Claudia was waiting the birth impatiently.When the birth was happened and the baby was born prematurely but after a while baby was death. I think there is a metaphor because of Pecola had blue eyes and she felt that she was beautiful but she had the thing which she could not have and she was punished because of that thing.In the final part of the book, there is not any saying about Claudia.

This is my first interpretations about the book, the other parts would be I'm going to talk about.:)

18.spring break:))

Finally we have our break which is called spring break.:)))Also, we are lucky and the weather is great and sunny after dark and gloomy days. I wish we had a great break and then we'll have other great days too.:)I'm reading the bluest eye, while I'm watching people who are walking down the coast. That's all I guess. Have a nice Spring break:))

17. relations between honor killing and Hanife:)

We read the story about honor killings which is called Hanife and It was explaning situations between victim and murderer because there is a killing event.In the Hanife writer gave a great imagery to the readers to understand the event. At the begining of the story Hanife killed from three men and villagers came next to her body and they did only putting some stones of her body's circumference.Her mother looked like so calm because I think she would guess it would happen whatever would happen. Whatever happens,It does not matter someone took someone else's life.It is not right and nobody could do anything to escape from that ending. Hanife was carrying the golden collar and it symbolyses traditions I guess because she took it from Hasan and they began to be as a couple.I'll explain relations detailed later.:))

16. Honor Killings and Hanife

Honor killing is a kind of breaking the rulesof our culture because we learnt or already knew that people's life is not worth anything in the world but If we started to talk about honor killings, we could not consider that worth to women who live in Eastern part of Turkey.In Eastern part of Turkey many women killed because of honor killing. It does not matter these women murdered from their family members and also that disgusting event is covering because there is no evidence to have the rate of how many of women murdered for honor killing.

Also, I could not understand that is why male dominance is not let women could the strenght in the society? I knew that there is feminism but It should be. Otherwise, might be women are wedged in with that pressure more than before. I think honor killing is not acceptiable and It would not be.