The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. ... In The Bluest Eye, Morrison thoroughly uses her previous experiences in aid to create the feeling of hardship and the melancholy tone of the novel. ... It wasn't long before Toni met Harold Morrison, a young architect, who also taught at Howard University. ... The Bluest Eye was Morrison's first novel. ... In 1996, Morrison received a Medal for Di...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 3660
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography