Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye provides insight into the injustices of racism and poverty in America in the mid-1900s through the perspective of nine-year-old Claudia and ten-year-old Frieda MacTeer. ... Several characters construct and perpetuate fantasies or beliefs about transcending their circumstances. ... The Bluest Eye contains elements of ironic tragedy. ... In the last section of the book titled, "Summer", Pecola is raped and impregnated by her father resulting in further exclusion for Pecola. ... In The Bluest Eye the morals the adults of the neighbourhood follow...

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