Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is the story of young black girl growing up in a small town in Ohio, during the 1940's. ... This hatred and neglect of Pecola by her mother is evident in the scene that takes place in the opening chapter of the book, where Pecola is found to be "ministratin" by Claudia and Frieda. Pecola did not have a clue what was happening to her and the reason for this is obvious, her mother did not care enough about her to teach a basic life lesson. ... Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye gives the reader many shocking insights into the Black American family dur...

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Toni Morrison was born as Chloe Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, near Cleveland. ... In 1970, her first novel The Bluest Eye was published under the name of Toni Morrison. ... Besides being a popular novelist, Toni Morrison has won almost every major literary award and honor, including the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Chianti Ruffino Antico Fattore International Award in Literature, and the Nobel Prize. ... In the novel Sula, author Toni Morrison proves that love is not easy. ... Toni Morrison's Sula expresses death in this way, as a part of life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Toni Morrison is the author of seven, critically acclaimed, novels and a professor at Princeton University. ... While she worked full-time as an editor at Random House and raised two sons, she began writing her first novel, The Bluest Eye. ... As Sara Blackburn wrote in her review of Sula after the book's release in 1973, "Toni Morrison is someone who really knows how to clank a senten and her dialogue is so compressed and life-like it sizzles (Blackburn)." ... The power of love in Toni Morrison's Sula was manifested in relationships involving family, friendship and sex. ... Nel po...

• Word Count: 2614
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• Grade Level: High School