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…showed last 75 words of 3238 total…the role that education plays in oppressing the victim and teaching the victim to oppress her own black self by submitting to the values engraved in the text (160-161). In the end, Pecola follows in the footsteps of her family: her mother who finds refuge in the white world of the Fishers, her father who finds refuge in alcohol. Pecola, too, finds refuge in the depths of her insanity, folding, again, into herself--this time indefinitely.