8) Spring

In this season, many important things were happened. Mr. Henry touched Frieda's breast. Mrs. MacTeer and Mr. MacTeer got angry and Henry ran away.
Second important event was, the conversation between Mrs. Breedlove, Pecola and the white rich girl. Mrs. Breedlove worked in a house whose owner was white and wealthy. The little white girl called Mrs. Breedlove to Polly and Pecola heard her calling. She shocked. Although Mrs. Breedlove was her mother, she never called her mother. And at that time, Pecola accidently burned herself and Mrs. Breedlove beated her but comforted the white girl.
There is an irony in this section and the summer section. In the last season, when Pecola was raped by his father, her mother didn't believe her at the first time and the community did not understand her and forced them to move and wanted her baby die. She was not the guilty one, she was innocent but the community's reaction was cruel and pointless to Pecola. However, in the Frieda's case, they made the correct decision because the guilty one was Mr. Henry.
Then we read Mrs. Breedlove's story.
I understand why she was so unhappy and loveless to her family.
She grew up in Alabama and when she was 2 years old she had an accident with nail and became lame. She grew up without any family love and charged to look after her siblings and household. She enjoyed arranging things but when she meets Cholly, she fell in love to him. They married and moved to Lorain due to job opportunity. But life is hard in Lorain too. She had cultural conflicts because of the other women's attitudes. They made fun of her country way. And she had arguments with Cholly because of money and alcohol . Then Pauline was pregnant. And because of the baby their marriage went in a good way in a short time. Cholly started to come home early but Pauline still felt lonely. One day, she lost her front teeth while she was chewing a gum. And this made her feel herself ugly.
One conversation was deeply affect on me in this part. When she gave birth in a hospital, a doctor said that black women don't feel pain, they just like horses. This sentence was awful. How could a person make a sentence like this. How can they say that kind of things. This is more than humiliation or racism. This is inhumane.
Moreover, the other chapter, Morrison wrote about Cholly's background and again I understand his agression and loveless actions. There is no excuse for this rape of course but he was not a normal man. And at the end of the story, in the summer part, Morrison told us her point of view. "Violence people love violencely." When he was 4 days old, his mother left him in a railroad and ran away. His aunt who was Aunt Jimmy rescued him. When he was little younger, he tried to find his father whose name was Samson Fuller. when he met him, he did not know not only his name, but also his mother's name. This was his 3th bad experience. The other bad experience was concerned about 2 white men. While he was making love with a girl, 2 white men forced him to continue. This cruel event made him violence and after this, he hated white people and women.