When Cholly Breedlove, Pecola's father, burns down his family's house, his daughter is placed in the MacTeer house. ... Claudia, as a child, never really understands the adoration of the other girls to love white baby dolls, but she also lacks understanding of why the blue-eyed baby doll is adored even by the grown-ups in her black community. When she gets a white doll for Christmas, in attempting to discover the beauty inside the doll, she destroys the doll and finds out that she can see only the disk with six holes that makes the white doll bleat: she  had only one desi...

• Word Count: 2371
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Autumn 1940 The European part of World War II had just begun full force Implicitly Morrison is using the Nazi Regime as a distant background to the novel's events Americans of 1940 treasure blonde hair and blue eyes in both dolls and little girls These features reflects the Aryan ideal The connection is reflected by the three prostitutes Seasons The novel is divided into four seasons, but it pointedly refuses to meet the expectations of these seasons: Spring The traditional time of rebirth, reminds Claudia of being whipped with new switches, and it is the season when Pe...

• Word Count: 384
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

They liked the dolls that they played with and the food that they ate. ... She loved going to her house when she was making wine, soap or butter. ... She began to find herself wanting to stay in the house to read instead of going out to play. ...

• Word Count: 959
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the song "Back Door Man" Howlin Wolf sings about how he is sneaks in mens' house when they aren't around: "Well the men don't know, but the women understand/ when everybody's tryin' to sleep/ I'm somewhere making my midnight creep.... In the song Tupac says "You picked the wrong guy, baby, if you're too fly/ you need to hit the door, search for a new guy/ cause I only got one night in town/ break out or be clowned, baby doll are you down?...

• Word Count: 1900
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School