Quarreled Prayers

Special word :
Martyrdom: The suffering of death on account of adherence to a cause and especially to one's religious faith.

In the third chapter of The Bluest Eye the author continues using characteristic African-American lexicon such as:

"Leave me 'lone" 

"Sure you ain't bringin' in nothing."

"Your whiskey ass wouldn't feel hellfire, but I'm cold." (p. 40-41) 

ATTITUDE 

We can see a lot of portrait description, (description of a person physically or emotionally), Claudia starts by explaining how the Breedlove family was ugly physically and in attitude. They had a sort of mysterious ugliness because they all believed they were ugly. Pecola Breedlove hid behind her ugliness; "concealed, veiled, eclipsed- peeping out from behind the shroud very seldom, and then only to yearn for the return of her mask. ( p. 39). We have all had an ugly classmate once. From what I know I could have been the ugly classmate for someone. Each person regards beauty differently as many cliche phrases say. But it is a fact that if the person believes he/she is ugly they look even worst. Claudia describes the unharmonious build of the Breedlove's facial features. She does so in a way I imagined monsters. 

Yeah too cute... something like =

But with dark skin. 

Descriptions are hilarious and it is evident that the author gives them as unscrupulous as a child would give them. When we are kids we tend to exaggerate, but in that exaggeration truth is found. We need to read the chapter as if a child was actually telling us how he/she saw it. 

Regardless of the childish manner the author pin points some complex topics;

"In these violent breaks in routine that were themselves routine..." The Breedlove family was having a rough morning as Claudia tells us. The fights were a pause in the routine yet they were routine. The monotony of life in poverty had gotten the best of them. And it is Monotony itself which feels too elegant for a child to approach. The constant shift between innocent indiscrete descriptions and heavily charged analysis is what keeps the chapter afloat. 

As a young adult (oh the dreaded category), I fear the moment when my reality is one lacking purpose. Routine could be the end of me. Mrs. Breedlove is trapped in her boring reality and Jesus doesn't let her escape it. One of the last descriptions in the chapter is that of Mrs. Breedlove. She is religious and has convinced herself that her destiny is to be the human punishment of her not religious drunken husband. Claudia adult voice says: "If Cholly had 

stopped drinking, she would have never forgiven Jesus. She needed Cholly's sins desperately." (p. 43)