"You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question."
—Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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Pecola || camp nano
General FictionSince birth, everyone has told Pecola Robinson that she was ugly, unwanted, and unworthy of being loved or loving herself. And Pecola had accepted this as fact. Thus, she has always tried to change and shrink herself so that she could be accepted by...
