Part one of term paper
It is the dream of every little girl to be beautiful. The most cherished possession of many little girls is a doll: a beautiful, blonde haired, blue-eyed doll. It is this image that young girls strive to attain. This image haunted Pecola Breedlove as she tried to be accepted in society. The one thing that would change how people despised ...

Part two of term paper
... else could see. She saw their beauty and not their nuisance. She was walking down the street when her eye caught hold of the dandelions, "Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they were pretty" (Morrison 47). Pecola is like the dandelions: most people pay no attention to her, and instead, try to keep her as far away from themselves as possible. If people could just look closer, they might see the beauty in the dandelions and in Pecola. However, Pecola knew that this was n ...