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. ... The Bluest Eye contains elements of ironic tragedy. ... Pecola lives in Lorain, Ohio, a county full of crime, poverty, and inescapable injustice. ... She clearly wants to belong to this society as she would do anything to be considered beautiful. ... In The Bluest Eye the morals the adults of the neighbourhood follow can be seen as...

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

While she worked full-time as an editor at Random House and raised two sons, she began writing her first novel, The Bluest Eye. ... Years later, when her oldest daughter Hannah confronts Eva about Plum's death and asks if Eva ever loved her children or ever played with them, Eva's response is typical of the strong black woman: "I'm talkin' 'bout 18 and 95 when I set in that house five days with you and Pearl and Plum and three beets, you snake-eyed ungrateful hussy. ... Sula overhears Hannah tell some other women that she loves Sula, but that she doesn't like her....

• Word Count: 2614
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

She placed Eva in an old folk's home, slept with Jude, and had casual sex with other women husbands as much as she could. ... Although Sula and Nel might share a common vision (suggested by "one eye"), their needs and desires are distinct (they have "two throats"). ... As soon as she returns she goes to speak with Eva. ... Sula then goes to visit Nel and explains to her that she would not be able to handle taking care of Eva because she is afraid of her. She tries to persuade Nel to handle Eva's social security checks because the community would probably scorn her if she had done...

• Word Count: 2894
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School