Physical characteristics:
- 11 years old
- African-American
- Black, curly hair
- Raped and abused by mom and dad
- Becomes pregnant
Emotional Characteristics:
- Feels self hatred towards herself and the African-American race
- Fragile and delicate; feels inferior because of her race
- Wishes to have blue eyes
- Wants people to love her
- Damaged from watching her parents fight
- Creates a fantasy world in order to escape from her brutal reality
- By the end of the novel she believes her wish to have blue eyes is granted yet this is because she has become mentally unstable
- Her fate: insanity, is worse than death because she is not allowed to escape
Claudia MacTeer: Narrator of the story, has a child's perspective with the exception of some scenes where she is talking as an adult and looking back
Physical characteristics:
- Starts out as a 9 year old and as the story progresses she grows up
- African-American
Emotional characteristics:
- Suffers from adult's tyranny over children
- Suffers from racism towards the black community
- Idealizes beauty as being white and blue-eyed
- Not learned about self-hatred
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