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A 4 page paper which examines the
mother/daughter relationships in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" and Ursula Hegi's
"Floating in My Mother's Palm." Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAmormth.rtf
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is because mothers and daughters often have some of the most intense, as well as most volatile and destructive relationships. In Toni Morrisons "The Bluest Eye" and Ursula Hegis "Floating
in My Mothers Palm" we have stories of girls/young women. These stories do not revolve around the mothers, but the mothers play an incredibly important role in the development of
the girls or young women. The following paper examines how each novel deal with the mother/daughter relationship. The Bluest Eye While there are many different examples of the
relationships between mothers and daughters in this book we focus on one particular relationship. That relationship is between Pecola and her mother Pauline. Pecolas mother is something of an ignorant
woman with no real compassion or love for her daughter. "Her mothers rejection is subtle yet potent. When Pecola tells her mother about the molestation," wherein her father sexually molested
her, "Mrs. Breedlove does not believe her own flesh and blood. Pecola calls Pauline Mrs. Breedlove instead of calling her mother" (McEwen). Interestingly enough, Pauline accepts this for it puts
her daughter in a position where she is not really her daughter: "Allowing this, Mrs. Breedlove shows that unconsciously she does not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola
does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-called mother-daughter relationship" (McEwen). We also note that Pecolas mother is just as bad, if not
worse, than just about everyone she meets. Most of the people she meets and knows do nothing but ridicule and belittle her. Pecola "is, according to her mother and apparently
everyone else, ugly (100)" (Kuenz 421). Clearly the relationship between the two is not strong or supportive. Floating in My Mothers Palm With this story we see a
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