This reflects the complexity of making moral judgments in life. Her villains are not all evil, nor are her good people saints. Loss of Innocence Innocence has to be lost in order for the individual to grow. Claudia, a narrator in The Bluest Eye , loses her innocence as she watches Pecola's destruction. The black community is a pariah community.
Black people are pariahs.
The civilization of black people that lives apart from but in juxtaposition to other civilizations is a pariah relationship. In fact, the concept of the black in this country is almost always one of the pariah. But a community contains pariahs within it that are very useful for the conscience of that community. She believes that blacks were used to control succeeding waves of immigrants in order to prevent class warfare. Blacks also provided immigrants with an identity, i.e., they were not blacks.