Reaction to spring

Okay so this chapter was very in depth and opened my eyes to a whole new prospective in this book. We start off the chapter with the event with Frieda and Mr. Henry. This is very provoking and hard to comprehend but if you look back in the text and read between the lines, it was almost like you could see this event coming. It was interesting to see how the girls reacted to the situation by going to see Pecola about getting whiskey for Frieda so she doesn't get ruined. Which brings me to the hard parts of the chapter. We get an insight into Cholly's childhood and also how he meets Polly and how they fall in love. In ways it is easy to feel bad for Cholly and all of the things he has had to go through in his life. Between the death of his great aunt and trying to find happiness in the world. He goes looking for his dad and gets rejected like a piece of trash which upsets Cholly and he begins to drink away his problems. I think this is the wrong way to go about it, Polly made him happy but he doesn't want to be with one woman forever and he would rather have sex with different women then being with only one. He is afraid of having children and thinks they shouldn't love him because he has been rejected by so many people and lost so much, he begins to think that absolutely no one should show that they care for him. This leads to one of the hardest parts in the book which is when Cholly is drunk and comes in to find Pecola doing dishes. He sees her doing the same thing that Polly did the first time he meet her and he is tempted to have sex with her. This is hard to read but shows more back story into why Pecola and her family is the way they are. We also figure out why the title of the book is what it is. Beauty is a big part of this novel and is seen when Pecola goes and visits the minister and asks for blue eyes. She wants them because she feels like then her life would be different and none of these things would have ever happened to her. She sees that white little girls have it better then girls like her which is why she wishes for blue eyes to make her pretty. This is sort of a touching moment because you feel for Pecola and you wish she had never gone through what she is going through. It makes you think and this has probably been one of the most in depth and hardest chapter to read.