Claudia MacTeer Claudia suffers from the same mentality of most of the characters in the novel; she is insecure about materialistic things and knows that beauty belongs to white people. Claudia does not believe white is beautiful because she sees it‚ but because she is told and exposed to how others view beauty. Claudia believes white is beautiful because everyone who is older says it is. Claudia subconsciously defines beauty as having a good personality. When Claudia is given a doll for Christmas
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The Author and His or Her Times Toni Morrison was born in February 18‚ 1931 and is still living. When she taught at Howard University she spent her free time to write her book The Bluest Eye‚ which was written in 1970 and has received multiple awards such as the Pultzer Prize and Nobel Prize. She is African American and is the second oldest of four children and had parents that were not as financially stable compared to other families in her time. Her father had to work several jobs and her mother
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Eye Eyes are the most delicate part of our body‚ as they are the window for us to the outer world. Smoking has been a common habit in the modern world. It causes biochemical changes in our bodies that accelerate aging by encouraging the destruction of collagen. Lazy eyes and cataract are caused due to heavy smoking. Smoking can cause the eyes to sting‚ water and blink more often. Television has a powerful influence in the lives of most children‚ computers have turned into an indispensable part of
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Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder We have all looked at magazines and seen the portrayal of the perfect man or woman‚ but is that necessarily the only perspective we should have? Every day‚ you come across average people with countless insecurities and it’s all because society says they aren’t good enough. Whether it’s changing the color of their hair or becoming part of a weight watching program people are constantly trying to conform themselves to receive acceptance. Media has ruined us. Daily
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. 224 pp. New York: Holt‚ Rinehart and Winston. $8.95. The Bluest Eye‚ set during the 1940s after the end of the Great Depression in Lorain‚ Ohio‚ tells the heartbreaking story of eleven year old Pecola Breedlove‚ who perpetually prays for blues so she can be as beautiful and loved as blue-eyed‚ white American children. Pecola believes that she’s destined to live a tragic life due to her perceived ugliness‚ which is constantly reinforced by the way the people in her
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THE BLUEST EYE The Bluest Eye is a brilliantly written novel revealing the fictional trauma of an eleven-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove. This story takes place in the town of Lorain‚ Ohio during the 1940’s. It is told from the perspective of a young girl named Claudia MacTeer. She and her sister‚ Frieda‚ become witness to the terrible plights Pecola is unintentionally put through. Pecola chooses to hide from her disabling life behind her clouded dream of possessing the ever so cherished
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In The Eye of the Storm filmed by ABC News in 1970‚ Jane Elliot‚ a teacher at Riceville Community Elementary School‚ puts her third grade students through an experiment to show them how horrible colored people were treated. Since 1968‚ Jane Elliot always has something planned for National Brotherhood Week. On Tuesday‚ Elliot segregates her class by the color of the students’ eyes. The brown-eyed kids were to wear special collars around their neck so they could be seen from afar. In this situation
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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‚
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including Shirley Temple in the novel is to paint a picture of the ideal girl; a figure of conformity. She represented everything that Pecola thought she should be: blue eyes‚ blonde hair- a simply adorable little girl; and everything Maureen Peal felt she was: wealthy‚ light skinned‚ and what people liked to see. The Bluest Eye illuminates true dependence on absolute beauty; the yearn of conforming to an ultimate standard of it. The usage of Shirley Temple exemplifies this desired beauty and in
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Through African Eyes Précis The book Through African Eyes by Leon E. Clark‚ allows Africans to speak through many autobiographies‚ poetry‚ newspaper and magazine articles‚ letters‚ diaries‚ and many more sources in four different parts. Clark writes this book in order to let the readers think for themselves and to give Africans the opportunity to speak for themselves. Africans have always been viewed as less important than others and almost not human. While reading this book however‚ the reader
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