The Bluest Eye Thesis

PROPOSED THESIS
Morrison portrays the use of symbolism, setting, and theme with a maze of unspoken beauty within the African American society to effectively communicate distorted traditions of race, gender, and youth.
BP 1:
Topic Sentence (complete sentence)
The storyline takes place in the state of Ohio in an old home back in 1941 with the loving and hardworking MacTeer family struggling to make ends meet due to the Great Depression.
Three MSDS you will use (at least TWO MUST BE QUOTATIONS FROM ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN TLQS FORM!)
1. The MacTeer family has two young daughters, sisters Claudia and Frieda. They eventually take in a young girl named Pecola. Pecola’s father is in jail for burning the family home down (Morrison).
2. The two sisters,
Biswal, Priyadarshi. "Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye: A Study of Black Consciousness and Wounded Psyche." Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies 5.4 (2014): 96-102. Literary Reference Center Plus. Web. 23 Oct. 2016.

BP 2:
Topic Sentence (complete sentence)
As complicated the subject of race can be, Morrison’s, The Bluest Eye, integrates racism not just from color, but also a socioeconomic issue.
Three MSDS you will use (at least TWO MUST BE QUOTATIONS FROM ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN TLQS FORM!):
1. Morrison embodies a state of depression in Pecola while composing specific characteristics of race (Witalec)
2. The story projects a broadness of color, specifically “whiteness” on a vast spectrum relating this to purity, value, and righteousness through behaviors (Powers).
3. Morrison angers over the thought that one would want to change their eye color.
Research Support (in MLA/fully documented form) you will use in this BP
1. "The Bluest Eye - Introduction" Contemporary Literary Criticism Ed. Janet Witalec. Vol. 173. Gale Cengage 2003 eNotes.com 23 Oct, 2016
Powers, Jacob. "The Bluest Eye." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 21 Dec 2013. Web. 24 Aug 2016.

BP 4:
Topic Sentence (complete sentence)
Self-worth, sexuality, and beautification reflect cruelty & harassment in Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”.
Three MSDs you will use (at least TWO MUST BE QUOTATIONS FROM ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN TLQS FORM!)
1. In the story, men have distorted sexual cravings from disastrous past experiences which degrade their ideas of what a woman really is. (Morrison)
2. Soaphead Church’s sexual appeal toward children represent his failed past marriage and ultimate aversion toward women. (LitCharts)
3. Womanhood and sexuality in “The Bluest Eye”, develops into a central factor with the younger character, Pecola. (Biswal)

Research support
Biswal, Priyadarshi. "Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye: A Study of Black Consciousness and Wounded Psyche." Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies 5.4 (2014): 96-102. Literary Reference Center Plus. Web. 23 Oct. 2016.
SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on The Bluest Eye.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2002. Web. 20 Oct. 2016.
Morrison, Toni, and Rachel Lister. "The Bluest Eye." Introduction to Literary Context: American Post-Modernist Novels (2014): 53-60. Literary Reference Center Plus. Web. 23 Oct.