In Toni Morrison’s book‚ The Bluest Eye‚ the character Pecola Breedlove is a passive‚ young and quiet girl who lives a hard life; her parents are constantly physically and verbally fighting. Throughout the book‚ Pecola is reminded continuously of how ugly she is‚ which fuels her aspiration to be white with blue eyes. Pecola‚ a poor black girl‚ is compelled to believe that she is‚ in fact‚ ugly. Tortured and tormented by almost everyone she knows‚ the identity of the protagonist‚ Pecola Breedlove
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“The Bluest Eye” In the novel‚ “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison‚ the adults poorly misguided the children in this story. Although‚ there were numerous children who were not protected and guided properly by the adults in this novel‚ Pecola Breedlove is one of the most challenged characters of this story by Toni Morrison. There were several different characters that impacted the life of Pecola Breedlove destructively. Due to the negative impact of her surroundings‚ Pecola suffered many personal
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The Search for Blue Eyes Racialised Beauty in The Bluest Eye Though there have been many steps towards equality in today’s society‚ America‚ as a whole‚ will not reach it until races could be equal in everything. But America is still a race dominated culture‚ and mostly a white dominated culture. In this culture‚ society looks up to a racialised beauty‚ where beauty is defined in the terms of white beauty‚ or the physical features most white people have. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison tells
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At the end of chapter 8 in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye‚ the reader is reminded of a graphic scene that was mentioned on the first page of the book between a father and his daughter. In this chapter‚ Cholly comes home very drunk and rapes his daughter‚ Pecola. While almost all of Morrison’s readers cannot understand‚ at the beginning of the book‚ how a man could impregnate his own daughter‚ they later start to grasp at why Cholly could do such a thing because of his past. Tragically‚ Cholly is
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Toni Morrison’s‚ The Bluest Eye‚ is about a girl named Pecola who wishes she had blue eyes so she looked beautiful. She was also black‚ lonely‚ and came from a poor family. In short‚ herself an society didn’t think she was pretty. Pecola prays for blue eyes cause she think that’ll make her prettier. Blue eyes are the accepted sign for being beautiful. Blue eyes are unique and are considered beautiful by most Americans an also most people in general. Pecola thinks she’s very ordinary and ugly
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The Bluest Eye In her novel The Bluest Eye‚ Toni Morrison emphasizes three major events that are both personal and historical because they affected her at the time when she was writing the novel. She writes about a personal event about a childhood who wanted blue eyes to be beautiful‚ which puzzled her and changed her perception of what real beauty really was and who were the ones considered beautiful or ugly. There were also a couple of historical events that she mentions in the novel that affected
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loves the head of a dandelion" (Morrison 35). "They are ugly. They are weeds" (Morrison 38). Pecola‚ the main character from the novel The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ compares herself to the dandelions: ugly and unwanted. Pecola is raised with no sense of self-esteem or self-value. She is a black girl with nappy hair and dark eyes. She yearns for blue eyes‚ the mark of beauty in the United States during the 1940s. She lives a life of tumult and ugliness. Pecola portrays happier versions of her
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The Bluest Eye is a complex novel written by Toni Morrison‚ an African American literary theorist. Morrison evokes a society still plagued by the premise of slavery and the exposes this mode of white inferiority through The Bluest Eye. “Wicked people love wickedly‚ violent people love violently‚ weak people love weakly‚ stupid people love stupidly‚ but the love of a free man is never safe”‚ Morrison endows these last couple of sentences with a lyrical quality that makes the readers truly understand
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Adult women have learned to hate the blackness of their own bodies. The person that suffers the most from the white beauty standards is Pecola. Pecola wants blue eyes not because it conforms to white beauty standards but because she wants to view different sights and pictures to escape reality. To Pecola‚ the color of one’s skin and eyes do influence the way one is treated. Pecola is beautiful because she is human‚ but this beauty is invisible to the community who has identified beauty with whiteness
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The Bluest Eye is a novel by Toni Morrison that takes place at the end of the Great Depression in Ohio. In the novel‚ the MacTeer family first takes in a young boarder named Pecola Breedlove after her father Cholly has attempted to burn down the family home‚ but she is soon reunited with her own family despite their hardships. The MacTeer family are essential to the novel because one of the young daughters‚ Frieda‚ seems to suffer from a much less severe racism than most other characters‚ going as
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