The Bluest Eye 1. The Bluest Eye is the title of the book. ... This quote explains how Claudia received a doll and everyone thought it was beautiful because it was white, blue-eyed, and blonde, "Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window sign - all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured. 5. ...
My Critical Analysis The Bluest Eye was a book about the insensitive realities of society and the standards of beauty that society forces people to live up to. Pecola, a little black girl, who just wants to be pretty and fit into society thinks that blue eyes would change the way people looked a...
Leitmotifs are perhaps the most reiterative use of eye symbolism, as the author portrays both negative and positive themes through Firdaus interpretation of gaze. ... Furthermore, the parallel eye description illustrates how her specific quest for affection trascended any sexual, romantic quality or social position. ... The sky over our heads was as blue as the bluest sky but the colours mingled and everything around radiated this green light which sorrounded me, enveloped mecompleteley..." ... The narrator continually mentions this in every single eye description he reader encount...
