![]() Claudia and Frieda like Pecola, but feel sorry for her. They later take in a young girl named Pecola Breedlove because her father, Cholly Breedlove, burned her family's house down and ended up in jail. To help financially, the MacTeer's take in a boarder named Henry Washington, who the girls call Mr. Their father works hard to keep the family afloat. MacTeer, is strict and punishes them often, but out of a sense of concern and love for her children. Although there is a tremendous sense of love in their home, their mother, Mrs. It is 1941, near the end of the Great Depression, and their family struggles to make ends meet. ![]() ![]() Nine-year-old Claudia MacTeer and her ten-year-old sister, Frieda MacTeer, live in an old house in Loraine, Ohio. ![]()
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