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. ... Her mother, Pauline, reinforces this belief by dedicating her life to this rich white family and doting over their blond, blue-eyed little girl, while at the same time completely ignoring her own little girl. ... The child is stillborn and Pecola goes insane withdrawing into a fantasy world where she has the bluest...

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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. ... Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye gives the reader many shocking insights into the Black American family during the Depression, but perhaps the main idea to take away from the reading of this novel is how easy it is to lose one's innocence. ...

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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. ... Pecola's wish is to have blue eyes, the bluest of eyes, with this she will achieve beauty and happiness, her family will no longer fight, and everything wrong with her world will be okay. ...

• Word Count: 940
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Morrison is a Nobel peace prize award winning African American writer who wrote The Bluest Eye. The Bluest eye is the sadden tale of a young black girl in a black community. ... Instead of conventional chapters, The Bluest Eye is broken up into the four seasons. ... The research will focus on, in the The Bluest Eye, the themes of the white standard of beauty, rejection, and the skin tone hierarchy. ... (Morrison 19) That was an excerpt from the book The Bluest Eye and in that scene we see how Pecola adores the cup with the pretty little while girl on it. ...

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• Has Bibliography