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Pecola's fourteen-year-old brother, Samuel suffers the same abuse as Pecola at the hands of their parents. Samuel, in contrast to his sister, is not afraid to get involved in his parents' arguments and even uses physical force. He is known to run away from home, which he has done twenty-seven times by the age of fourteen.
Samuel Breedlove Quotes in The Bluest Eye
The The Bluest Eye quotes below are all either spoken by Samuel Breedlove or refer to Samuel Breedlove. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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The Breedloves lived there, nestled together in the storefront. Festering together in the debris of a realtor's whim. They slipped in and out of the box of peeling grey, making no stir in the neighborhood, no sound in the labor force, and no wave in the mayor's office. Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality—collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there.
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Chapter 3
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[The Breedloves] lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed because they believed they were ugly.
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You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their own conviction.
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Samuel Breedlove Quotes in The Bluest Eye
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Chapter 2
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The Breedloves lived there, nestled together in the storefront. Festering together in the debris of a realtor's whim. They slipped in and out of the box of peeling grey, making no stir in the neighborhood, no sound in the labor force, and no wave in the mayor's office. Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality—collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there.
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Chapter 3
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[The Breedloves] lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed because they believed they were ugly.
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You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their own conviction.
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