the struggle to survive, alone, can and will bring about negative mindsets and situations; all are detrimental to the foundation of the family unit. In defense of themselves and to keep society and self-realization at bay, And they took the ugliness in their hands, threw it as a mantle over them, and went about the world with it.(p.39) Accepting the judgments of others--seeing through others eyes, they consider themselves misfits and outcast (putouts--repulsive additions to society. The Breedloves are outcaste and unwanted. On the topic of individuality and security, the novel states, And Pecola. She hid behind hers. Concealed, veiled, eclipsedpeeping out from behind the shroud very seldom, and then only to yearn for the return of her mask.(p.39) Is there a need for each person to long for a mask, to protect and comfort us from the eyes of societys judgmental perspectives of who they think we are?As has been noted, unprettisms are taught. To perceive a concept such as beauty, one must first identify the concept and secondly, relate it to ones self. For every individual to have a cognizance of ones own beauty, it must first come from our families. Only then, will it continue throughout our relational developments. When we are born, we know not who or what we are, ours is a fate of family and society. If our families and society are striving for a future, then uprettisms must stop for each one of us....
