The Bluest Eye Spring Summary

Claudia returns home one day to find her mother singing and Freida crying. She learns that Henry touched Freida's breasts. When Freida runs to find her parents, they discover that Henry left. When Henry returned Mr. MacTeer shot at him with a gun. Rosemary alerted Freida that her father was going to go to jail for using the gun, so Freida attacked her. Miss Dunion says Freida may be "ruined", which Claudia and Freida don't understand. They think it means that Freida will get fat so they ask Pecola to get her father's whiskey in hopes that it will keep her from becoming overweight. They find Pecola and ask her about the Maginot Line. She is confused because she thinks she is nice. Claudia and Freida are mad that the little white girl of the rich house called Mrs. Breedlove "Polly". Mrs. Breedlove beats Pecola for knocking a cobbler off the counter, onto the floor. The girls are sent away while the white girl cries. We begin to learn about Cholly Breedlove, who was rescued by his Great Aunt Jimmy when he was abandoned by his mother. Aunt Jimmy becomes ill and M'Dear starts to heal her. However, Cholly finds her dead after eating a cobbler. Cholly and his older cousin Jake take two girls out. Cholly is caught having sex with Darlene by two white hunters. The white men make Cholly continue while they watch, holding flashlights. Yet, Cholly becomes angry at Darlene rather than the hunters. Cholly runs away in search of his father, Samson Fuller. Cholly goes to Macon, Georgia and finds his father who thinks Cholly is a creditor. In his journey, Cholly kills three white men and beats women. When Pauline stumbles into his life, he begins to feel captured and starts drinking a lot. This Spring, Cholly comes home drunka and rapes poor Pecola. We then meet Soaphead Church. He is a "reader, advisor, and interpretor of dreams". He marries Velma, but she leaves him after only two months. Pecola comes to Soaphead to ask him to give her blue eyes. He tricks Pecola into poisoning Bertha's dog so he wouldn't have to do it. He tells her if she does, she will get blue eyes. We learn he is a pedophile and writes a letter to God in which he explains is love for young breasts. He worships whiteness and feels superior due to his mixed color.