In the Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses abuse and hardship to show the tragic consequences that come from racism. In the videos we had seen in class showed how the .
blacks were treated horribly. The white people were superior. The Bluest Eye shows .
ways in which white beauty standards hurt the lives of black girls and women. From the movies we saw the .
South had millions of slaves. Slaves would usually work nonstop from sunrise to sunset. They didn't get .
much to eat and wore the same clothes. If a slave didn't do exactly what they were to do, they would be .
beaten, whipped, and sometimes killed. Toni Morrison describes the conditions under which .
African-Americans in general and Pecola in particular are forced to live.
The characters in the Bluest Eye are faced both directly and .
indirectly by racism. The characters are issued to internal values that create their own .
set of discrimination within families and the neighborhood. Three characters from The .
Bluest Eye that I will be describing are Pecola , Claudia and Pauline. .
Pecola Breedlove is an eleven year old black girl. She is a figure of the hate that the .
black community has for itself and how they believe they are ugly. Pecola is hated and picked on because she .
is black, she gets made fun of really bad because her skin is a lot darker than most black people. Pecola is just .
a child, she is delicate and weak as we see in the beginning of the book. Throughout the book she deals with .
many hardships and suffers much abuse from the people around her. Others take out their anger on little .
Pecola. Pecola feels unloved and the only way she feels she could be loved is by being beautiful. Pecola thinks .
that if she has blue eyes, she would be beautiful and then everyone would love her. She wishes she could be .
like Shirley Temple who she feels everyone loves. Seeing the world through blue eyes would be different, .
Pecola believed, and then she would be seen differently.
Her first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published in 1970. ... In 1965 she started writing 'The Bluest Eye." ... " The characters in the bluest eye show exactly why such a movement was needed. ... Pecola Breedlove is the central figure in "The Bluest Eye." ... "The Bluest Eye" focuses on Pecola Breedlove, a lonely adolescent black girl in the late 1940's. ...
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. ...
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. ...
The Bluest Eye, written in 1940 by Toni Morrison, is constructed to reveal a very powerful point that applies not only to the book, but also to many societies of the present day. ... The ideas and views present in The Bluest Eye are related to beauty and what makes one beautiful. ... In the opening of The Bluest Eye, the passage from the Dick and Jane story, becomes a representation of an ideal white person's life. ... Eye imagery fills the scene, as the shopkeeper cannot "see" Pecola. ... She becomes the society that would accept her as beautiful with the bluest eyes. ...
Fighting, drinking, seducing Abusive, impulsive, vulnerable Charles (Cholly) Breedlove In the novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison, the protagonist was Pecola Breedlove and the antagonist was her father, Cholly Breedlove. ... The Bluest Eye. ...
The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. ... In The Bluest Eye, Morrison thoroughly uses her previous experiences in aid to create the feeling of hardship and the melancholy tone of the novel. ... The Bluest Eye was Morrison's first novel. ... Moses expresses the fact that in traditional blues songs, the singer is the subject, however, in The Bluest Eye, Claudia tells Pecola's story instead,...
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...
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 e...
