Oib Chart
| |Plot and Setting |Themes |Writer’s Choices |Symbolism |Characters |Literary tradition/genre |
|The Bluest Eye|African-American black girls from |Racism, perception, |Fragmented narrative, |Stove, sofa, black thread, |Pecola Claudia, |Published in the midst of the Civil Rights movement in 1970, The Bluest |
|Toni Morrison |unloving families suffer the most. |power, beauty, |(multiple perspective), |colour, pie, |Frieda, Cholly, |Eye did not see immediate success. Morrison states in the novel’s |
| | |femininity, love, sex, |third-person omniscient |Nature/flowers/weeds, cat, |Pauline, Junior, |afterword: “With very few exceptions, the initial publication of The |
| |Lorain, Ohio, in the 1940s where |loneliness, perversion, |narration and first person, 4|buildings, rooms, Shirley |Geraldine, Soaphead |Bluest Eye was like Pecola’s life: dismissed, trivialized, misread”. Her |
| |Morrison grew up |violation, whiteness, |seasons, Dick & Jane primer, |Temple, milk, blue eyes, dirt, |Church, Mr & Mrs |narrative ‘effort is to be like something that has been probably only |
| | |blackness, |colloquialism |rape, madness |MacTeer, Aunt Jimmy |been fully expressed perhaps in music…’ The catharsis and the |
| | |internalisation, | | | |transmission of cultural knowledge and values that have always been |
| | |identity, madness |
|The Bluest Eye|African-American black girls from |Racism, perception, |Fragmented narrative, |Stove, sofa, black thread, |Pecola Claudia, |Published in the midst of the Civil Rights movement in 1970, The Bluest |
|Toni Morrison |unloving families suffer the most. |power, beauty, |(multiple perspective), |colour, pie, |Frieda, Cholly, |Eye did not see immediate success. Morrison states in the novel’s |
| | |femininity, love, sex, |third-person omniscient |Nature/flowers/weeds, cat, |Pauline, Junior, |afterword: “With very few exceptions, the initial publication of The |
| |Lorain, Ohio, in the 1940s where |loneliness, perversion, |narration and first person, 4|buildings, rooms, Shirley |Geraldine, Soaphead |Bluest Eye was like Pecola’s life: dismissed, trivialized, misread”. Her |
| |Morrison grew up |violation, whiteness, |seasons, Dick & Jane primer, |Temple, milk, blue eyes, dirt, |Church, Mr & Mrs |narrative ‘effort is to be like something that has been probably only |
| | |blackness, |colloquialism |rape, madness |MacTeer, Aunt Jimmy |been fully expressed perhaps in music…’ The catharsis and the |
| | |internalisation, | | | |transmission of cultural knowledge and values that have always been |
| | |identity, madness |