1. The Bluest Eye
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...
Beauty The book portrays the African American population as a culture fascinated by its internalization of a "blue-eyed, yellow haired, pink-skinned" beauty ideal. ... For Christmas on e year, she receives a blue-eyed, blonde -haired, pink-skinned doll. ... Being a black little girl in a society that idolizes blonde-haired blue-eyed beauty, Pecola sympathizes for the dandelions because she knows what it is like to be devalued. ...