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...

• Word Count: 1112
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... They slid about furtively searching for shelter, while his body remained paralyzed. ... (Bluest Eye, 148) As you well know Cholly then left to go to Macon so he could find his father. ... (Bluest Eye, 123) Toni Morrison shows the pain an...

• Word Count: 480
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• Grade Level: High School

Beauty plays a highly influential role through Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. ... 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. ... Later on in the book, Pauline is introduced to "physical beauty" something that is "Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought" (122). ... Pecola experiences rejection after rejection by others who care about their appearance and how close they come to this idealized standard of beauty. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Bluest Eye 1. The Bluest Eye is the title of the book. The author of the book is Toni Morrison. ... The ending of the book is satisfying. ... I do agree with Toni Morrison because the theme "Whiteness as the standard of beauty" is still here in today's day and age. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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In the novel "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, Pecola Breedlove must learn what it is like to deal with racism (man versus man conflict). ... All that Cholly could think about was how " he wanted to fu-- her tenderly." ... The conflicts through out the book are never really successfully solved by one main resolution. ...

• Word Count: 791
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School