May 24 Bluest Eye A band

Aim: What is Peola's crisis?

Do Now: Where does "self-esteem" come from?

Does it come from receiving approval from others or does it come from the disapproval we receive of others?

“The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?”

― Henry David Thoreau,

July 12, 1817 - May 06, 1862

1. What does Delilah Johnson say to Bea Pullman that changes her destiny?
2. What gives Mrs. Pullman (Bea) the idea of opening a restaurant on the Atlantic City boardwalk?
3. How do Delilah and Bea get along?  Why?
4. How do Jessie and Peola get along?  Why?
5. What causes the break in Jessie's and Peola's friendship?
6. What causes the break in Peola's relationship with her mother, Delilah?
7. Why does everybody in the audience get nervous when Delilah goes to get Peola from school during the rain?
8. Why does Peola's mother ask the teacher if her daughter has been passing?
9. What does Peola have in common with her father?
10. What does the unemployed man (Elmer Smith)  say to Bea that changes her destiny?
11. Why is Peola angry?
12. How does the story Elmer tells Bea about Coca-Cola and the character's name, Peola, get mixed and produce Pecola in Toni Morrision's The Bluest Eye?
13. Both Delilah and Bea are close friends.  How do they see things differently?
14. What does Delilah say about the band that shows she is proud to be Black?
15. What does Peola say that shows she values money more than pride?
16. How does Peola's one wish resonate with the theme of The Bluest Eye?
17. Why is it significant that Jessie would fall in love with her mother's boyfriend?