- many people have their birthdays in the spring
- season of love and fertility
- season of warmth and beauty
- has a very positive atmosphere
- a time for new beginnings (Easter--resurrection, certain mammals come out of hibernation)
2.
- for Claudia, spring is associated with pain (they change the whips, these hurt more)
- passively negative: build-up to end on that note of the park where black children were not allowed to play --> it filled their dreams
3.
- Pecola is physically capable of conceiving a child
- physically fertile but it's an evil seed
- Pecola = unyielding earth?
- it's not her fault; never was
Thanks for these notes; I've made a copy for the Bluest Eye / Notes page, as you'll see above. Now for summer... who is in charge of that??
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