Her first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published in 1970. ... In 1965 she started writing 'The Bluest Eye." ... " The characters in the bluest eye show exactly why such a movement was needed. ... Pecola Breedlove is the central figure in "The Bluest Eye." ... In "The Bluest Eye," Morrison shifts to varied narrative situations, which are: Claudia the first-person retrospective narrator and Claudia the first-person experiencing narrator. ...

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Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye is about the life of the Breedlove family who resides in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s. ... She wants the bluest eye. ... The name of the novel, "The Bluest Eye," is meant to get the reader thinking about how much value is placed on blue-eyed little girls. ... There are two major metaphors in The Bluest Eye, one of marigolds and one of dandelions. ... In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison tells the story of a little black girl who thinks that if she can live up to the image of the blue-eyed Shirley Temple and Dick and J...

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The Bluest Eye By: Toni Morrison Blonde hair, blue eyes, and white skin was the envy of most young African American girls in the 1940's. In the tragic novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old black girl is a victim of racial self-loathing and also rape by her father which results in pregnancy. ...

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The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye tells the sad story of Pecola Breedlove, a poor prepubescent black girl, who wants to be loved and cared for by her family and society. ... She idolizes images of blond haired, blue-eyed white girls like Shirley Temple. ... The child is stillborn and Pecola goes insane withdrawing into a fantasy world where she has the bluest eyes of all. ... It would be ridiculous for Morrison not to include such a character and his motivations. ... Morrison would alienate the same readers she is trying to appeal to. ...

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In the novel "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, Morrison provides an interpretation of how whiteness is the standard of beauty, which warps the lives of black women and children, through messages everywhere that whiteness is superior and beautiful. ... "The Bluest Eye" has many elements that relate to Toni Morrison's own personal life. ... Through "The Bluest Eye", Morrison makes a statement about how vulnerable a young black girl, such as herself, is as she is exposed to this implied white beauty and superiority and racism. ... One reason why she wrote &quo...

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Beauty plays a highly influential role through Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Morrison's novel highlights the ideals of the south in the 1940's, displaying middle to upper-class ideals of beauty - which seem centered upon whiteness and proves to be harmful to young black girls living in this time. ... In The Bluest Eye, Morrison refers to these traits of nature as "funk". ... The Bluest Eye examines the home life of these children in the stories as well. ... Pecola's wish is to have blue eyes, the bluest of eyes, with this she will achieve beauty and happiness, h...

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In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the chapters are separated by the evolutions of seasons. ... Memory plays a crucial role in the major themes of The Bluest Eye. ... Pecola provides an extended depiction through her ideals of the ways in which internalized white beauty standards deform the lives of blacks, especially black women, in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. ... Toni Morrison's The Blues Eye is composed of sections that are labeled by the seasons: autumn, winter, spring, and summer. ... Evidently we can conclude from the readings: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Ey...

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The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, is a novel about sexual commencement and maltreatment. ... After being abused so much sexually and emotionally, Pecola eventually ends up going insane and believing that she now has the bluest eyes and everyone is jealous of her. ... The author, Toni Morrison, made many implications towards sexual experiences. ... Although Pecola did not turn out rational and sane, she did turn out the way she believed she should: with the bluest eyes. ... Toni Morrison wrote this novel using recurring structures that really enhanced and improved the way the reader approached ...

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The story is told from the perspectives of the sisters, Claudia and Frieda MacTeer, Morrison's goes through four seasons and traces the Pecola's descent into madness. Morrison provides readers with the context and history behind the Breedloves" misery and Pecola's obsessive desire to have the "bluest eyes". ... In Toni Morrison's book the Bluest Eye we will see how Cholly demonstrates "that disadvantage" that he goes through all his life and how because of that he is lead to being a cold person. ... (Bluest Eye, 148) As you well know Cholly then left to go to Mac...

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The Bluest Eye 1. The Bluest Eye is the title of the book. The author of the book is Toni Morrison. Some important facts that influence the story is that, the town where the story takes place is where Morrison grew up as a little girl. Also, the time that the story takes place (1941) is the same time Morrison would be nine years old. ...

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In "The Bluest Eye," by Toni Morrison, the reader is led to question if society actually does try to predict events by seasons. ... Through the season of winter, Morrison argues how Geraldine's perfectness is an illusion of reality. ... Morrison uses Geraldine's 'mask of perfection' to break society's status quo. ... Morrison contradicts this idea by having a character be sexually assaulted. ... Here, Morrison argues that it was society's fault that Pecola was raped. ...

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In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the evils inflicted upon blacks by a white society indoctrinated by the inherent beauty of whiteness and ugliness of blackness are thoroughly depicted. ... The Bluest Eye is a bitter novel that vividly reflects the way in which blacks were treated unfairly, and more important, how most blacks were unable to resist oppression from whites during the late nineteenth century. ... Pecola begins to worship the life ofblue-eyed? ... d say,Why, look at pretty-eyed Pecola. ... More important though, The Bluest Eye, goes beyond its value as a work of lit...

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In the novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison a drama about a girl name pacola, who looks down on her own race and wonders why white little girls get more respect than black girls; also Cholly Breedlove who treats his wife with the lowest respect ever and Pacola"s mother Pauline who never got attention from her mother when she was a child. lack of love causes all four charters downfall because their experience of non-love never going to know how the feeling of love is.Lack of love is not ever experience love or the feeling of being loved. ...

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Toni Morrison's book, "The Bluest Eye," is not a book for the lighthearted. ... This obsession over simple eye color might lead many to believe Pecola developed a case of Body Dysmorphic Disorder, or BDD. ... Her obsession with obtaining blues eye may have stemmed from the violence she was forced to witness growing up. ... In the end, it was Toni Morrison's goal was to expose the reader to the truth behind society and the connection it has with her characters. ...

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While she worked full-time as an editor at Random House and raised two sons, she began writing her first novel, The Bluest Eye. ... To Nel, "Talking to Sula had always been a conversation with herself (Morrison 95)." ... Years later, when her oldest daughter Hannah confronts Eva about Plum's death and asks if Eva ever loved her children or ever played with them, Eva's response is typical of the strong black woman: "I'm talkin' 'bout 18 and 95 when I set in that house five days with you and Pearl and Plum and three beets, you snake-eyed ungrateful hussy. ... (Morrison, ...

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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. ... Sula is a dark character; emotionally defined by a sense of evil and physically defined by her black coloring, as well as the darkening birthmark in the shape of a rose that adorns her eye. ... 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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There is no way I would be able to compare the lives of Toni Morrison and Emily Dickinson. ... Her 1970 novel The Bluest Eye was followed by Sula in 1974, which secured Morrison a nomination for the National Book Award. ... Today, Morrison is the Robert F. ... Morrisons writing technique is very different from other novelists. ... Both Morrison and Dickinson have a unique writing style. ...

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Analysis of Conflict "There were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. We thought, at the time it was because Pecola was having her father's baby. Having her father's baby was not the only problem the twelve-year-old young girl had to face. In the novel "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, Pecola Breedl...

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