"Frieda brought her four graham crackers on a saucer and some milk in a blue-and-white Shirley Temple cup. She was a long time with the milk‚ and gazed fondly at the silhouette of Shirley Temple’s dimpled face. Frieda and she had a loving conversation about how cu-ute Shirley Temple was. I couldn’t join them in their adoration because I hated Shirley. ” I choose this quote in the book because through-out the whole novel so many people keep comparing themselves to Shirley Temple. I have been trying
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Life through a Black Lens Becoming an individual and finding a true self-identity is not always easy as it seems‚ but can be seen as a sign of growing up. This is seen as an issue in Toni Morrison’s‚ novel The Bluest Eye. The main character is a young girl named Pecola Breedlove‚ who deals with the struggles of developing an identity and being accepted by society. Pecola is a young girl growing up in the early 1940s; she would face many great trials along the way such as‚ being poor and black. She
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In this passage‚ Toni Morrison instills upon the reader a sense of great irony by contrasting the feelings of the world and the little girl about the doll. The world sees the doll as the epitome of beauty while the little girl sees it as the personification of the impossible standards of beauty. Morrison’s diction in this passage serves to emphasize the differences of opinion of the doll between the little girl and the rest of the world. The world sees this doll as "[the little girl’s] fondest
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regards as beautiful? To what degree is she complicit in the social prejudices and prejudgments that she grows up with? Claudia shows clear signs of rebellion towards what the dominant culture regards as beautiful: how white people look like - blue eyes‚ yellow hair and pink skin. While Pecola submits to the prejudiced beauty standards‚ Claudia fights against them. She rebels by hating anyone or anything that is labeled as ‘beautiful’ by her society. She finds herself imagining and sometimes even
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In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye‚ the character Claudia struggles with the beauty standard that harms her sense of self-esteem. Claudia tries to make sense of why the beauty standard does not include black girls. The beauty standard determines that blonde-haired blue-eyed white girls are the image of beauty and therefore they are worthy of not only attention‚ but are considered valuable to American culture of the 1940s. Thus‚ learning she has no value or beauty as a black girl‚ Claudia destroys
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Admittedly author Toni Morrison is not one of my favorite writers. Morrison’s novels are often dense with symbolism and allegories that are often complex to understand or can be easily misunderstood by a reader. Surprisingly The Bluest Eye quickly became one of my favorites. Like many who read for enjoyment I wanted to see the happy ending. Essentially I wanted Pecola to win‚ longed for her to receive her happy ending‚ felt it would only be fitting if in the end she learned to love herself unconditionally
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Identity. The texts I have chosen illustrate the hazards of Western religion‚ Rape‚ Patriarchal Dominance and Colonial notions of white supremacy; an intend to show how the protagonists of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple as well as Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye‚ cope with or crumble due to these issues in their struggle to find their identities. The search for self-identity and self-knowledge is not an easy task‚ even more so when you are a black woman and considered a mule and a piece of property. Providing
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"The Bluest Eye" written by Toni Morrison is a book taken place around fall of 1941 after the Great Depression‚ in Lorain‚ Ohio where a young girl named Pecola Breedlove lived and loved Shirley Temple. Since she loved Shirley Temple and was the opposite of her she believed that her own blackness was inherently ugly. She then had a tough time trying to love herself against what she believed was beautiful and classy. Which was to have blonde hair and blue eyes‚ meaning that she was idolized towards
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Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the reader is introduced to the theme of racial prejudice through the experiences of the characters Scout and Jem Finch. The story is told from the perspective of Scout. In Toni Morrison’s novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ the reader is also introduced to the theme of racial prejudice through the experiences of Pecola Breedlove and Claudia MacTeer. The story is told through the perspective of Pecola Breedlove‚ and Claudia MacTeer. Both of the novels show different
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Those That Hurt‚ Hurt: Eliciting Sympathy for the Unsympathetic in ‘The Bluest Eye’ Case Study: Cholly Breedlove “There is really nothing more to say—except why. But since why is difficult to handle‚ one must take refuge in how.” Toni Morrison‚ The Bluest Eye Set in Ohio in 1941‚ In The Bluest Eye tells the story of Pecola Breedlove‚ a black 11-year-old girl who is raped by her father‚ Cholly. Eliciting sympathy for Cholly might seem impossible‚ as we will see that his unfathomable act ultimately
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