The Bluest Eye - Fall and Winter

I did notice the book started with this sort of elementary story about "See Mother." When I was reading that part I thought of the picture books with this type of story. It is typically a white family with a little girl or boy all in their specific gender roles. To me, those type of picture books show a "sugar coated" family. These are the problems they deal...no one wants to play with Jane. Poor Jane. I think she takes out punctuation and eventually spaces from that story to show either how it blends together or how meaningless it is. She probably repeats sections of the story at the beginning of chapters to show the contrast of this white middle class fictional family to the families shown in the book who are poor and black.