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. ... Much of the narration comes from Claudia MacTeer as a nine year old child, but Morrison also gives the reader the insight of Claudia reflecting on the story as an adult. some first person narration from Pecola's mother, and narration by Morrison herself as an omniscient narrator. ... Morrison reveals the significance of Pecola's name through the character of Maureen Peal. ... By this allusion, Morrison illustrates tha...

• Word Count: 1112
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Morrison wants her audience to seriously reflect upon racism. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Toni Morisson's novel The Bluest Eye is about the life of the Breedlove family who resides in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s. ... Morrison is able to use her critical eye to reveal to the reader the evil that is caused by a society that is indoctrinated by the inherent goodness and beauty of whiteness and the ugliness of blackness. ... Much of the narration comes from Claudia MacTeer as a nine year old child, but Morrison also gives the reader the insight of Claudia reflecting on the story as an adult, some first person narration from Pecola's mother, and narration by Morrison herse...

• Word Count: 609
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, is a novel about sexual commencement and maltreatment. ... The author, Toni Morrison, made many implications towards sexual experiences. ... Toni Morrison wrote this novel using recurring structures that really enhanced and improved the way the reader approached the information. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Beauty plays a highly influential role through Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Morrison's novel highlights the ideals of the south in the 1940's, displaying middle to upper-class ideals of beauty - which seem centered upon whiteness and proves to be harmful to young black girls living in this time. ... In The Bluest Eye, Morrison refers to these traits of nature as "funk". ...

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

In the Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses abuse and hardship to show the tragic consequences that come from racism. ... Toni Morrison describes the conditions under which African-Americans in general and Pecola in particular are forced to live. ... Toni Morrison shows us what racism produces in the Bluest Eye. ...

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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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The author of the book is Toni Morrison. Some important facts that influence the story is that, the town where the story takes place is where Morrison grew up as a little girl. Also, the time that the story takes place (1941) is the same time Morrison would be nine years old. ... I do agree with Toni Morrison because the theme "Whiteness as the standard of beauty" is still here in today's day and age. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 791
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School