The Bluest Eye

The novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison presents the certain type of beauty admired by the main character in this fictional story, which seems to be the main content of the novel. The first thing that the people judge is the physical appearance, no matter from which part of the world anyone comes from. The stereotype of defining a beauty in a certain way still prevails in our society. On the other hand, human beings being a social animal, cannot remain secluded from the society. They shape themselves

The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is a novel born from the author’s experience with a little black girl who wanted blue eyes, an effect of “racial self-loathing” (Morrison 210). The novel explores a similar, but much more extreme story: the story of Pecola Breedlove. Pecola is a little black girl living not only in a world that divides itself by race and is prejudiced against black people, but also amidst a family that holds conflict and divisions within itself. Morrison’s novels are known for their

In the Bluest Eyes, Tori Morrison portrays society’s disgusting attributes such as sexual violence, racism and trauma by examining the life of Pecola. Pecola’s obsession of having blue eyes has grown throughout the novel. At first she believes by consuming candy she can one day have blue eyes. After Cholly rapes her, she believes her eyes have actually turned blue. At first blue eyes in the novel symbolizes society’s beauty standard, which is whiteness. For someone to be considered beautiful or lovable

“The Bluest Eyes” by Toni Morrison centers on a character name Pecola Breedlove. Pecola is an eleven year old black girl whom the story revolves. Pecola role is the protagonist. she is abused by almost everyone in the novel and eventually suffers two traumatic rapes.Pecola is a fragile and delicate child when the novel begins, and by the novel’s end, she has been almost completely destroyed by violence. I pick Pecola because I can relate to her. Through Pecola Breedlove’s lonely,sensitive,and imaginative

The Bluest eye would be described as influential to all women who profoundly admire the white race. If the bluest eye were to be analyzed by me, I would say its primary characters such as Pecola are obsessed with thinking of herself having shade of blue in her eyes and other traits that dazzle her. Other characters in the book would also envy people who carried those physical traits. An essential point that moves the audience reading the book, is that those African American girls had lack of love

The Bluest Eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison in 1970. It was the first novel she ever wrote while she was a teacher at Howard University. This book was written different since it consists of different seasons instead of chapter to represent every time period despite the short space of time. The Bluest Eye is interesting because it shows the life of a young girl that wants really bad to be something she is not. The purpose of the book is to show how an African American girl wanted to be a white

The Bluest Eye initially depicts female friendship as confined to the proximity of family and cultural programming. For example, during Claudia and Frieda’s afternoon with Maureen, the sister’s defend Pecola from Maureen’s ridicule. This stems from the fact that Pecula is within a similar cultural program as the sisters and that she has been living with them. Similarly, Maureen is of a middleclass background and of no connection to Claudia and Frieda’s family, so she is resented both prior and after

Whiteness manifests itself in The Bluest Eye as a symbol of desire or the standard of beauty. Symbols like Shirley Temple and blue eyes reflect society’s social acceptability. Likewise, this negatively effects characters like Pecola who then internalizes whiteness as beauty and her own complexion as ugly similar to the “doll test”. Pecola is also cursed out of Geraldine’s home because of her complexion while she reinforces whiteness as this standard of beauty that is unrealistically obtainable for

In The Bluest Eye, Pecola the protagonist is taken under the Macteer family’s wing much like “The African family is community-based and the nurturing quality is not contained within the nuclear family, but is rather the responsibility of the entire community” (Ranström). In traditional Africa each child has a place and is welcome in the community. The act of parenting another child was not odd because every adult that lived in each community believed that any child is welcome in anyone’s home. This

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye follows Pecola Breedlove’s “journey” to obtain beauty in the form of the titular blue eyes. Not only is it told in Claudia’s perspective, but the readers witnesses several backstories, namely Geraldine, Pauline, Cholly, and Soaphead Church’s, which is in a third-person perspective. This might be seen as odd at first, but after taking a deeper look into their pasts, there is something that stands out: something “beautiful” in the eyes of these people. These “beautiful”