By looking at the cover and title, I didn't think this book would be about African Americans. They don't normally have blue eyes, and the cover makes it look like some European novel with the fancy cursive lettering. Then I looked at the back and read the little plot summary and saw the picture of the writer and was like, "woah."
I guess my first question is does the narrator switch from chapter to chapter? Because it feels like it is different, like Claudia is narrating some and someone else is doing other parts?
It feels like Claudia's narration doesn't really match her character too, because she is 9 I believe and the way she's narrating makes her seem like she's older than she actually is.
I definitely like the sister Frieda more than Claudia because shes sassy but caring and she seems like she'd be a pretty cool person to be friends with because she seems tough too. She reminds me more of a mother figure which makes sense because the oldest child is kind of like that.
In the chapters about Claudia and Frieda, it seems like a coming of age novel and I hope that if it ends up being that, that it's not super cliche.
When you told us that we may skim over parts, I only found very few sections where that's the case. It's only when she goes into descriptive mode and describes people but gives them no name and it seems like there's no reason to include that in the story.
Not sure how I feel about Mr. Henry. At first I thought he was kinda cool for giving the girls money for ice cream and doing magic, but I realize now he just gave them money to get them out of the house.
And poor Pecola, that's all I have to say about her because it's sad. Everything about her gave me the feels.
And lastly, what was up with the first chapter about the house and the family and why is it used as titles for the chapters?
My immediate thought was that the writing of that chapter and the titles make it seem like someone might have a mental illness, and by your email that GAVE AWAY A SPOILER WITHOUT DECLARING THAT THE EMAIL HAD A SPOILER ALERT I'm going to assume that whichever girl gets raped (which I'm guessing is Pecola) suffers from a mental illness after being raped.
Everyone said that this is a terrible/boring book but I honestly don't think it's bad. I enjoyed reading most of it.
But then again I have nothing else to do on my Saturday night so my life is thrilling. Yay.
