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    Toni Morrison’s novel "The Bluest Eye"‚ is a very important novel in literature‚ because of the many boundaries that were crosses and the painful‚ serious topics that were brought into light‚ including racism‚ gender issues‚ Black female Subjectivity‚ and child abuse of many forms. This set of annotated bibliographies are scholarly works of literature that centre around the hot topic of racism in the novel‚ "The Bluest Eye"‚ and the low self-esteem faced by young African American women‚ due to white

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    The three main characters in “The Bluest Eye”‚ are three young black girls. One of the three notices the white media‚ from Shirley shirley temple to the Mary Janes’ candy wrappers‚ that surrounds them. She gets irritated and angry that the only good roles models she has ever known are white

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    The Bluest Eye Essay #4 by: Jason Berry EWRT 1B Instructor: C. Keen June 16th 2010 Toni Morrison the author of The Bluest Eye‚ portrays the character Pecola‚ an eleven year old black girl who believes she is ugly and that having blue eyes would make her beautiful‚ in such a way as to expose and attack “racial self- loathing” in the black community. Toni Morrison the author of The Bluest Eye‚ portrays the character Pecola‚ an eleven year old black

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    Alienation in The Bluest Eye Alienation. A withdrawing or separation of a person or a person’s affections from an object or position of former attachment (Merriam Webster). Society has ways of alienating people for multiple reasons such as their race‚ gender‚ class‚ or beliefs. In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison‚ the character Pecola was alienated not only by society‚ but by her family as well. Pecola’s alienation was due to the fact that she was raped by her father and carried his baby. This reveals

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    The Bluest Eye: A Great American Novel A Great American novel is one that helps the reader understand the values‚ issues‚ and beliefs most central to a culture and helps the reader know what it means to be an American. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison deserves to be recognized as a great American novel because of the universal themes portrayed throughout‚ the memorable characters‚ and the impactful storyline and language that moves the reader. On the first page of the novel‚ three sentences down

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    “ A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl‚ and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment.” This quote from The Bluest Eye is the meaning of the story in a sentence. Toni Morrison is the author of this very powerful and emotional novel and through her use of symbolism‚ Morrison tells the story of Pecola Breedlove‚ an African American girl‚ and her struggle to achieve the acceptance and love she desires from her family and friends

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    The Bluest Eye The major characters in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison were Pecola Breedlove‚ Cholly Breedlove‚ Claudia MacTeer‚ and Frieda MacTeer. Pecola Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around whom the story revolves. Her innermost desire is to have the "bluest" eyes so that others will view her as pretty in the end that desire is what finishes her‚ she believes that God gives her blue eyes causing her insanity. She doesn’t have many friends other than Claudia

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    to Literature November 6th‚ 2012 Sisterhood in The Bluest Eye I’m writing about love or it’s absence. —Toni Morrison The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without close woman-friend. —Toni Morrison From the quotations above‚ I’d like to choose two words‚ “love” and “woman-friend”‚ to reveal the focus of Toni Morrison’s novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ that is‚ the representation of sisterhood. In The Bluest Eye‚ personally‚ sisterly love is represented as a “voice” to

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    Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye: A look at Sexism and Racism Toni Morrison‚ the author of The Bluest Eye‚ centers her novel around two things: beauty and wealth in their relation to race and a brutal rape of a young girl by her father. Morrison explores and exposes these themes in relation to the underlying factors of black society: racism and sexism. Every character has a problem to deal with and it involves racism and/or sexism. Whether the character is the victim or the aggressor‚ they

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    The Bell Jar‚ by Sylvia Plath‚ explores the symbolic representation of the emotional state of being depressed and failing to find meaning in life. The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ demonstrates the fact that beauty is socially constructed causing certain races to be shut off. The setting of each novel will be contrasted in terms of its influence on society‚ while internal conflict and symbolism will be compared. Plath’s and Morrison’s novels occur during the same time period‚ ranging from the 1940s

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