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Use Of Colors - Research Papers

Use Of Colors


Pauline saw the beauty of life through the colors of her childhood down
South. Her fondest memories were of purple berries, yellow lemonade, and "that
streak of green them june bugs made on the trees the night we left down home.
All them colors was in me"1. Pauline and Cholly left the colors of the South
when they moved North to Ohio to begin their life together. Through Cholly,
Pauline hoped to find those colors of beauty that she left "down home".
For a while she did find her colors, her beauty, in the eyes of Cholly.
He released in her all the colors of life which were sealed down in her soul.
Everything about their early married life was described in vivid colors. This
was true ...

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by not coming
home. He found his satisfaction through other people, thus he neglected Pauline.

To make up for this neglect and her own insecurities, Pauline sought
comfort through movies. Here she would sit and watch the perfect "white" world
of Hollywood. Here she would find her colors on the "silver screen". She had a
longing for these colors which was going to affect her life and the lives of her
family until it destroys them, especially Pecola.
When Pecola was born, a major change occured in Pauline's life.
According to Susan Willis, "Adjectives become substantives, giving taste and
color and making it possible for colors to trickle and flow and finally be
internalized..."3. She now wished to live her life like this, through the colors
in herself.
Right after Pecola was born Cholly again began to pay attention to
Pauline again the way he used to when they lived down South. The only problem
was that the colors had dimed in Pauline. By working for a white ...

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Claudia is also aware of order and beauty as
seen through the eyes of the "white" world. The children are bombarded with
visions of blonde children with bright blue eyes. Shirley Temple and Jean
Harlow in movies; the figure of a little blonde Mary Jane, on the candy they eat,
and the blond baby dolls they recieve as gifts, are all ways of reinforcing the
stereotype of beauty and goodness that a black child could ever hope to achieve.
This dilemma is offset, in Claudia's life, by the attention she recieves from
her loving parents, that have showed her to love herself. This is a love of
support that is not present in Pecola's life.
This is not to say that the love and support that ...

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Added: 4/27/2008 01:28:05 PM
Category: English
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