His eyes, the color of smoked wood, were filled with awe and stretched wide, concentrating on the way her brightly colored hair twisted down her shoulders and back. ... He grabbed the girl's hand, intertwining their boney fingers together and pulled her down into the tall, dew-covered grass with him.She lied next to him in the early fall morning, and watched his face carefully,especially his eyes, as they trailed over her own face. ... If you make Jack go away you can see her, and everything will go back to normal. ... His eyes were wide with concern as this beautiful girl in front of him...

• Word Count: 2531
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Morrison describes how African-American girls during this time period were encouraged to aspire to be white. ... These characters create fantasies in the attempt to find comfort and adapt to their society, but what they end up finding is isolation and lack of fulfillment as their fantasies cannot satiate their desires. ... Due to the notion of where beauty lies that was implanted in her mind at such a young age she is obsessed with the need to achieve this beauty and longs to obtain blue eyes as it occurs to Pecola that "if her eyes were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself w...

• Word Count: 3660
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography