So right off the bat, this section started off way different from the other sections that I have talked about. So I'm reading the pages and HELLO! spontaneously the text changes from regular text to italics in quotes. And, well, it took me a little while to decipher why this happened and what the meaning was behind it, then came to the conclusion that its Polly Breedlove's testimony during the trial of her husband for the rape of her daughter (which, I have confirmed happened, and is no longer just suspicion). There is more references to the, what I have now determined to be a motif (which is an element that the author usually has in each of their works), eye motif. It is now presenting itself as in Beloved and in Tar Baby, which makes sense considering The Bluest Eye was the first novel ever written by Toni Morrison, that her motif would fluctuate in style throughout this novel but were consistent in the other two novels that I have studied. There is also another symbol that as I have read these three books has also morphed into a motif: the supernatural; there has been some element of this in every one of her books that I have read and studied. Something definitely unlike the other two novels I have read would be the symbol of music throughout this book, I still really cannot figure out its meaning, though I have a pretty good hunch that it might be a symbol for the emotions of a person and all of their unexpressed feelings because said unexpressed feelings can only ever be expressed through some type of musical outlet.
It has often been suggested that the main character in this novel, Pecola, is a part of Toni Morrison herself, so this is the only way I will address this information, for fear of not knowing its validity. As I read there was a paragraph that equated the place of Cholly Breedlove in his family to a rotting of the tooth that really is not so bad to begin with, but then BOOM there it is, and your whole tooth is completely destroyed. As I was reading I also happened to stumble upon the perfect statement of a theme that was expressed in the book -- whoo hoo for that! As in both Beloved and Tar Baby there was something in the text that equated blacks to animals. There is also an interesting part where Polly pulls a metaphor from the Bible and equates Cholly to her "crown of thorns" and her "cross to bear." This novel shows some promise to possibly be studied for Feminist Theories, as I have seen quite a few instances where some of the major points of that theory .