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English 3 CP Marissa Ann Sutton Period 6 October 20, 2003 “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun, or fester like a sore- and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet?” Langston Hughes uses his poem “Harlem” to express a variety of dreams deferred. Toni Morrison, the author of “The Bluest Eye”, uses the characters in her novel to emulate the same idea of deferred dreams. The characters Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, and Maureen Peal all mirror the ideas expressed in the poem “Harlem”. “Please, God”, Pecola pleaded. “Please make me disappear.” These almost silent prayers can consistently be heard in the Breedlove household from young Pecola. She religiously wishes for what she could never have, hoping that her life will improve. She desires blue eyes and peace among her parents, but growing up as a young underprivileged black girl these hopes are more than out of reach. Every aspiration and expectation Pecola dreams of seems to hopelessly shrivel and dry up.
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