"Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness," (pg.45) what would drive a girl of such a young age to be so consumed with a seemingly adult problem? ... 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 Declaration of Innocence writing was to be said by the deceased in order to be purified and to be allowed rebirth. ... In one of his speeches he talks about the description of aging. "My God, the process of aging brings senility." ...

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The innocence as a young child that he obtained was soon to be abandoned. He saw no difference in black and white, until the age of fourteen when his long time childhood friend and neighbor, a minister's daughter, moved to England and her parents told her that she was not to write him because he was a "nigger" (Reuben) . ...

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