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    Racism in the Bluest Eye

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    The Bluest Eye Questions 1. The Bluest Eye provides numerous examples that show the idea that white is beautiful and black is ugly. These white beauty standards deform the loves of black women. There are many examples that white is superior like the white baby doll that was given to Claudia‚ the idea of Shirley Temple‚ how the light-skinned Maureen is cuter than the other black girls‚ and Mrs. Breedlove’s preference for the white girl over her own daughter‚ Pecola. The adult women learned to hate

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    English 102 December 12‚ 2010 Bluest Eyes by Morrison(novel)‚ The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (short story)‚August Wilson’s Fences and W. H. Auden’s poem The Unknown Citizen Beauty is in the eye of the holder ‚that’s if you have someone holding it‚ as for Pecola she is a young girl who is constantly reminded how ugly she is ‚which makes her wish she had blue eyes so that someone can see and appreciate her. Both her parents find happiness somewhere ‚her father finds joy in

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    What does Claudia’s destruction of white baby dolls say about her relationship to the ideal of whiteness? In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye‚ we are presented with ideals of what it is to be black and how it is to be white and how society’s constructions of the ‘ideal’ human affects characters within this novel. Claudia Macteer is a young African-American girl who struggles with these ideas and societies notion of perfection. Claudia battles with her own identity and demonstrates her frustrations

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    In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Kendrick Lamar’s album To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)‚ both authors show how oppression manifests itself as internalized racism. The influence of the “Black Is Beautiful” cultural movement is present throughout the novel and the album. Throughout the novel‚ each character deals with oppression differently. It is understandable considering each individual has been raised in a different way. However‚ society is one of the main reasons that each one

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    Deepika Kommineni Mr. Carter AP Literature 13 March 2015 Destructive Effects of Idealized White Beauty on Black Society In The Bluest Eye‚ Toni Morrison addresses a timeless problem of white racial dominance in the United States and shows its impact on the life of black females growing up in the 1960s— when the "Black is Beautiful" movement reached its peak. The novel presents an extended interpretation of how whiteness as a standard of beauty obstructs the lives of black women and children like

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    Race and Beauty in a Media Contrived Society Throughout Toni Morrison ’s novel The Bluest Eye‚ she captures‚ with vivid insight‚ the plight of a young African American girl and what she would be subjected to in a media contrived society that places its ideal of beauty on the e quintessential blue-eyed‚ blonde woman. The idea of what is beautiful has been stereotyped in the mass media since the beginning and creates a mental and emotional damage to self and soul. This oppression to the soul creates

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    Ugliness

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    she is not white.” Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” is not the typical black American’s novel written in 1970 (or at all). It shows a different part of life and a different understanding than what is typically shown with a positive‚ triumphal‚ or most commonly‚ hopeful ending. Instead‚ it shows what can easily happen to a young girl growing up who has never had a sense of who she is‚ merely because she would have to be somebody else just to exist. Blue eyes would make her a person. Until then‚ she

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    Pecola Beauty Standards

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    Breedlove comes to admit she is ugly as she starts obsessing over the idea of having the bluest eyes to make her attractive. Pecola full-heartedly believes that blue eyes are a necessity for beauty and if she were to by some means acquire them‚ all of her problems in life would disappear. “Why‚ look at pretty-eyed Pecola. We mustn’t do bad things in front of those pretty eyes” (46). Pecola assumes blue eyes are the key to gaining admiration from her community and love from her family. While Pecola

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    Beauty in "The Bluest Eye"

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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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    Who Is Cholly Breedloves?

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    The Bluest Eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison. The setting of this novel is fall of 1941 through the summer of 1942 in Ohio. Throughout the novel the reader is introduced to a number of characters. A character that often catches a reader’s eye is Cholly Breedlove. “The way you treat people says a lot about who you are‚” This quote by Thema Davis can easily be used to describe Cholly Breedlove. Cholly Breedlove is a damaged individual. Cholly is the husband of Pauline Breedlove and father to

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