All 11 Uses of
comprehend
in
The Bluest Eye
- They gave me a puzzled look, decided I was incomprehensible, and continued their reminiscing about old squint-eyed Shirley.†
Chpt 2
- He cannot see her view— the angle of his vision, the slant of her finger, makes it incomprehensible to him.†
Chpt 2
- We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.†
Chpt 3
- They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes.†
Chpt 3
- Slight as it was, this deformity explained for her many things that would have been otherwise incomprehensible: why she alone of all the children had no nickname; why there were no funny jokes and anecdotes about funny things she had done; why no one ever remarked on her food preferences—no saving of the wing or neck for her—no cooking of the peas in a separate pot without rice because she did not like rice; why nobody teased her; why she never felt at home anywhere, or that she…†
Chpt 4
- Having no idea of how to raise children, and having never watched any parent raise himself, he could not even comprehend what such a relationship should be.
Chpt 4 *comprehend = understand
- The women of the town early discovered his celibacy, and not being able to comprehend his rejection of them, decided that he was supernatural rather than unnatural.†
Chpt 4
- And we did not dwell on the fact that the baby's father was Pecola's father too; the process of having a baby by any male was incomprehensible to us—at least she knew her father.†
Chpt 5
- In order to comprehend fully the duality of that position, one needs to be reminded of the political climate in which the writing took place, 1965-69, a time of great social upheaval in the lives of black people.†
Chpt 6
- We thought … it was because Pecola was having her father's baby that the marigolds did not grow" foregrounds the flowers, backgrounds illicit, traumatic, incomprehensible sex coming to its dreaded fruition.†
Chpt 6
- My choices of language (speakerly, aural, colloquial), my reliance for full comprehension on codes embedded in black culture, my effort to effect immediate co-conspiracy and intimacy (without any distancing, explanatory fabric), as well as my attempt to shape a silence while breaking it are attempts to transfigure the complexity and wealth of Black American culture into a language worthy of the culture.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely