The Bluest Eye is a novel written by the famous author Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison whoms real name is Chole Anthony Wofford was born in 1931 in Loraihn‚ Ohio. She was the second of four childern in a black working class family. Morrison grew up in a integrated neighborhood and did not fully realize racial divisions until she was a teenager. She admits that as a child she was the only black and the only one who could read. She always had an interest in literature and even took Latin in high school
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[REDACTED] 3/19/2013 [REDACTED] Marginalized Society in The Bluest Eye Within any sort of organized group‚ division is inevitable. Throughout history‚ civilizations have felt the need to distinguish between rich and poor‚ Pagans and Christians‚ black and white. Society takes these labels further and uses them to define people‚ as individuals and as smaller subgroups. Through these labels‚ society separates people based on preconceived notions‚ automatically coloring its perception of them
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blue eyes early in the novel to convey the idea that sometimes love and beauty is unfairly only reserved for those who are white. Throughout the The Bluest Eye‚ a young African-American girl named Pecola Breedlove is constantly described as “ugly” by other characters‚ including her own mother. Toni Morrison characterizes her as an innocent‚ yet incredibly insecure child. Due to the insults and bullying she endures‚ Pecola greatly dislikes her appearance‚ believing “that if her eyes‚ those eyes that
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Race and racism are complicated issues in The Bluest Eye. Unlike typical portrayals of racism‚ involving white hatred against blacks‚ The Bluest Eye primarily explores the issue of racism occurring between people of color. Race is not only defined by the color of one’s skin‚ the shape of one’s features‚ or the texture of one’s hair‚ but also by one’s place of origin‚ socioeconomic class‚ and educational background. "Whiteness" is associated with virtue‚ cleanliness‚ and value‚ while being black is
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It would not be an exaggeration to call this poem opaque‚ though it may seem plain enough. And it would not be an exaggeration either to call this poem plain‚ though it may seem opaque enough. The poem’s structure is plain‚ an enumeration‚ far from mechanical‚ of the life aspects of one night‚ an idealized night‚ an archetypal one‚ that allows for a great multiplicity of life acts associated with it. The precondition‚ the one precondition for such a night to take place is that this must happen "whilst
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Nia‚ Maria‚ Helen and Nelly Winter Keepsake Pg.62-63 Maureen Peal is the new girl in town. Frieda and I were bemused‚ irritated and fascinated by her. We looked hard for flaws to restore our equilibrium‚ but had to be content at first by uglying up her name‚… Pg 65. Bay Boy. Woodrow Cain‚ Buddy Wilson and Junie Bug- black boys who teased Pecola. “Black e mo Black e mo ya daddy sleeps necked..” What the boys kept saying to Pecola. Pg. 73 Maureen trying to make herself seem superior
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Infancy is the most important and sensitive time of a person’s life. For the duration of this time we form connections with our parents/caregiver; this bond that we create affects who we grow into later in life. In The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison presented a Character named Pecola. Pecola was raised by neglectful parents. They paid little to no attention to her nor did they show her any love/affection. They fought all the time in front of Pecola and never stopped to think of how such violence affected
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reporter once that she was the only black child in her first grade class and the only one that could read. Morrison loved to read which is how she gained a love for writing. Morrison’s writings produce poetic phases and strong emotions. “So precise‚so faithful to speech and so changed with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.” says The New York Times. Her characters try to understand the world that they are living in. Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye focuses on race‚ beauty‚ society‚
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Humans‚ individually‚ are not evil things‚ but as they join society‚ they are dirtied and they corrupt each other. This is the Jean Jacques Rousseau style of looking at humanity. Toni Morrison’s writing in her novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ mirrors this perspective. In The Bluest Eye‚ one of the main subjects discussed in the book is the matter of beauty. Beauty as a whole‚ Morrison argues‚ is one of “...the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought”(122). Morrison pursues this idea by having
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Anger "Anger is better [than shame]. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality of presence. An awareness of worth."(50) This is how many of the blacks in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye felt. They faked love when they felt powerless to hate‚ and destroyed what love they did have with anger. The Bluest Eye shows the way that the blacks were compelled to place their anger on their own families and on their own blackness instead of on the white people who were the cause of their misery
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