Cynthia Ms. Stern AP Language Bluest Eye Passage 28 November 2012 Bluest Eye The passage is an excerpt from The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. The overall purpose of this excerpt is to showcase both Claudia’s and Freida’s innocence as they struggle to comprehend—and fix—the tragedy of the situation Pecola was in. Our astonishment was short-lived‚ for it gave way to a curious kind of defensive shame; we were embarrassed for Pecola‚ hurt for her‚ and finally we just felt sorry for her. Our
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Jacquelyn Gucciardi Ms. Waechter Honors English May 24‚ 2015 The Bluest Eye Although Claudia and Frieda are embarrassed and hurt for Pecola‚ their sorrow is intensified by the fact that none of the adults seem to share the same feelings of grief and their hopefulness tries to heal their disjointed society. In the passage Claudia begins to describe how she can see the baby‚ the living human that everyone else wanted dead. The baby that is still in the womb‚ she pictures the baby‚ in a dark place
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In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison‚ the main protagonist‚ Pecola Breedlove‚ is outcasted by the Black community of Lorain‚ Ohio and Morrison shows this through collective voice. Pecola is a young African American girl with very dark skin who thinks that if she could have blue eyes‚ she would be the White communities standards of pretty and treated like the other girls surrounding her. The Black community looks down on her and rejects her. One scene in The Bluest Eye when this is evident
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Toni Morrison‚ one of the most important and talented African Americans contemporary writer‚ she wrote a book call “The Bluest Eye” to express her feeling about the social treatment of the American Americans. The Bluest Eye is telling a story about a little girl‚ Pecola‚ who dreams every day to become beautiful. Her family and the surroundings‚ however‚ do not believe in her or makes fun of her. It seems like the whole society wont give her a chance to become beautiful. One of the most touching
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In Toni Morrison’s work‚ The Bluest Eye (1970) a young black girl is depicted in search for her true identity and the experiences of frustration she encounters due to her blackness and desire of wanting to be white because of the constant fear of being rejected in her environment. This novel presents insight into the complexity of the black community through the character of Pecola Breedlove. Through Pecola’s character‚ Morrison effectively portrays the dehumanisation of slavery and racism and how
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In the novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ the author‚ Toni Morrison‚ tells the tragic and devastating story of Pecola Breedlove. Innocent Pecola‚ however‚ is rejected in a very rational way by her community and most of all by her own parents. Well‚ The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ as allured these characters into Naomi Wolf’s‚ theory that the true danger to a woman is another woman. The Breedlove family as attract themselves into a world where they have all lack self-esteem. With the lack of self-esteem the
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Toni Morrison’s novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ is about a young‚ black girl growing up in a not so accepting America. Pecola‚ the protagonist in the book‚ is set apart from everyone. White people don’t want to associate themselves with her. And even black people don’t want to associate themselves with her either. She lives in this world that would ultimately destroy her and make her go insane. Critics Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Phyllis R. Klotman explore many major themes in the book that sheds light
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It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder‚ but when the image of beauty is one that has been ingrained into the mind since childhood‚ how can that statement possibly be true. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison proves this statement to be contradictory‚ because‚ in her novel‚ beauty is no longer just a person’s opinion but has been made into an unwritten rule‚ a standard set by society for society. The use of the theme black as other makes evident the cause and effect relationship a person’s
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Beauty and The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison’s novel‚ The Bluest Eye contributes to the study of the American novel by bringing to light an unflattering side of American history. The story of a young black girl named Pecola‚ growing up in Lorain‚ Ohio in 1941 clearly illustrates the fact that the "American Dream" was not available to everyone. The world that Pecola inhabits adores blonde haired blue eyed girls and boys. Black children are invisible in this world‚ not special‚ less than nothing
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Toxic Parents Toni Morrison’s fictional novel The Bluest Eye focuses on Pecola‚ a young black girl with a growing self -hatred . At the begin of the novel Pecola is staying with the Mcteer family because her house was burned down by her father and he ended up in jail. Neither of her parents bothered to check on her after Cholly was released from jail which shows the problems that lie in the Breedlove family. Toni Morrison shows us throughout the novel the toxic relationship that she
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