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. ... Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. ... 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. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Toni Morisson'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 narrative structure of The Bluest Eye is important in revealing just how pervasive and destructive social racism is. ... Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. ... 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. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses abuse and hardship to show the tragic consequences that come from racism. ... The Bluest Eye shows ways in which white beauty standards hurt the lives of black girls and women. ... The characters in the Bluest Eye are faced both directly and indirectly by racism. ... Three characters from The Bluest Eye that I will be describing are Pecola , Claudia and Pauline. ... Toni Morrison shows us what racism produces in the Bluest Eye. ...

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The Bluest Eye By: Toni Morrison Blonde hair, blue eyes, and white skin was the envy of most young African American girls in the 1940's. In the tragic novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old black girl is a victim of racial self-loathing and also rape by her father which results in pregnancy. ...

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The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, is a novel about sexual commencement and maltreatment. ... After being abused so much sexually and emotionally, Pecola eventually ends up going insane and believing that she now has the bluest eyes and everyone is jealous of her. ... Although Pecola did not turn out rational and sane, she did turn out the way she believed she should: with the bluest eyes. ...

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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. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Bluest Eye 1. The Bluest Eye is the title of the book. ... This quote explains how Claudia received a doll and everyone thought it was beautiful because it was white, blue-eyed, and blonde, "Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window sign - all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured. 5. ...

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In her novel The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison tells a tragic tale, carefully leading the reader through the circumstances which result in Pecola Breedlove's demise. She does not allow the reader to feel a satisfied hatred toward the characters who directly hurt Pecola, instead she spends chapters acquai...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Setting in "The Bluest Eye" Time 1940-41 The novel is divided into the four seasons Place Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's home town) It is more preciously set around Broadway, Twenty-First and Thirty-Fifth Streets. ...

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My Critical Analysis The Bluest Eye was a book about the insensitive realities of society and the standards of beauty that society forces people to live up to. Pecola, a little black girl, who just wants to be pretty and fit into society thinks that blue eyes would change the way people looked a...

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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...

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• Has Bibliography
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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. ... (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 and struggle that Cholly goes through. ...

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In Toni Morrison's novel "The Bluest Eye", the distortion of beauty instilled within Black Americans of the late 20th century are portrayed (taken apart?) ... Instead of her doll, as most readers would expect, Claudia bluntly expresses her disgust towards "a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll" that "the world had agreed" "every girl child [should] [treasure]", and dismembers it in a fit of rage. ... The doll is portrayed as a pretty "blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned" "little white girl". ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison a drama about a girl name pacola, who looks down on her own race and wonders why white little girls get more respect than black girls; also Cholly Breedlove who treats his wife with the lowest respect ever and Pacola"s mother Pauline who never got attention from her mother when she was a child. lack of love causes all four charters downfall because their experience of non-love never going to know how the feeling of love is.Lack of love is not ever experience love or the feeling of being loved. ...

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Advertisements are among the most creative and powerful forms of arguments today. Ads are designed to take your time and money. The first and most important function of an ad is to grab the reader's attention, and urges the reader to buy the represented products. The second function of an ad is to p...

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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. ...

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Analysis of Conflict "There were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. We thought, at the time it was because Pecola was having her father's baby. Having her father's baby was not the only problem the twelve-year-old young girl had to face. In the novel "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, Pecola Breedl...

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An effective use of literary devices in a novel is something that so called "separates the men from the boys". Literary devices help communicate a better understanding of the theme or themes of the story. There are many types of literary devices like foreshadowing, symbolism, point of view, met...

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Race and The American Dream The American Dream is symbolic to all in this world in the way that there is always hope and that you will get a chance to make or break yourself. Those who are determined and set their mind to what ever it is they are looking to accomplish generally succeed. People...

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• Grade Level: High School