Loss Of Innocence In The Bluest Eye

Tori Morrison portrays the premature loss of innocence in her novel The Bluest Eye, by explaining encounters that little girls are faced with, like violence, sex, and the ideas of beauty. (what is the argument Morrison makes about those ideas?) When one girl loses her innocence it causes a chain reaction that corrupt children's brains because it creates the feeling of importance and maturity to share your knowledge. The things that they learn can forever affect their personalities and behavior. Violence and fighting make way for Pecola Breedlove to have a premature loss of innocence, which occurs throughout the entire book, including many stories her parents. (statement, needs a topic sentence). Pecola loses her innocence before any of the other girls in the story, since she is raised in the most violent household. When Morrison recounts Pecola’s family she says “Cholly and Mrs. Breedlove fought each other with a darkly formalism that was paralleled only by their lovemaking. Tacitly they had agreed not to kill each other. He fought her the way a coward fights a man - with feet, the palms of his hands, and teeth. She, in turn, fought back in a purely feminine way - with frying pans and pokers, and occasionally a flatiron would sail towards his head” (Morrison 43). This quote explains how they fight, both very cowardly. Neither was strong enough to
Pecola has the experience before Claudia and Frieda. Violence, sex, and the pressure of beauty force Pecola out of her childlike innocence. Once Pecola lost her innocence, it was a chain reaction and the others followed. It seems so “cool” to lose your innocence and become an adult but when you grow up, all you wish is to be young and ignorant again. The things that these girls learned during this period of their life will forever follow them and affect their everyday behavior. Once you know something you can never erase it, no matter how hard you