The Bluest Eye Summer Summary

Claudia and Freida sell Marigolds in order to buy a bike. In the process of selling the flowers to people, they piece together the story of Pecola. The story is that her father got her pregnant and Cholly is gone. Most people think the baby should just die and blame Pecola for the incident. Claudia seems to love the unborn baby. She seems to feel that everyone else hate the baby, just as she hates everyone's love for white people. As a symbol of love and prayer, the girls plant Marigold seeds to help Pecola and the baby. Pecola miraculously gets blue eyes. We don't know exactly how, but she is talking to someone and she is looking into the mirror at her new eyes. Yet, teh blue eyes have the opposite effect she dreamed of them having. No one will even look at her. We learn that Pecola was raped more than once by Cholly. Pecola becomes angry and wishes her eyes were even bluer. Pecola goes mad and moves to a house on the outside of town. Cholly also dies in a workhouse. The novel focuses on the different variations of love, " Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe."