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    Portrait of a Victim: Toni Morrison ’s The Bluest Eye Bryan D. Bourn The Bluest Eye (1970) is the novel that launched Toni Morrison into the spotlight as a talented African-American writer and social critic. Morrison herself says "It would be a mistake to assume that writers are disconnected from social issues" (Leflore). Because Morrison is more willing than most authors to discuss meaning in her books‚ a genetic approach is very relevant. To be truly effective‚ though‚ the genetic approach

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    internet clips constantly. People are fed images of what "beauty" is supposed to be‚ but this idea of beauty is from the eyes of producers‚ models‚ musicians‚ and actors. It seems to me that only the people who are thought to have beauty are deciding what is beautiful. In Toni Morrison’s book The Bluest Eye there are many instances dealing with the idea of beauty‚ both through the eyes of some young girls and from an older point of view. For example‚ Claudia has a problem with white people who she believes

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    Errick Pope Pope 1 English 1102 Dr. Barker January 23‚ 2013 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison’s‚ The Bluest Eye is a novel about the events that occurred in America during the 1940s. It is mainly about an African American family‚ the Breedloves‚ and their everyday struggle to cope with the situations they faced during that time. In the 1940s‚ African Americans had to deal with

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    society’s view of what beauty is or. The concept of beauty can negatively and positively influence someone’s impression of you. In the book The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison‚ blue eyes were seen to represent something positive and encourage adoration. Toni Morrison uses blue eyes to symbolize beauty and acceptance in society. Pecola‚ the main character yearned for blue eyes because society saw her as ugly and disgraceful towards the human race. Pecola is a young African American girl who lives in Lorain‚

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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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    Self-hatred in the Bluest Eye After reading the Bluest Eye‚ the readers will be impressed by the atmosphere of depression and anxiety. One main reason for that is the self-hatred in the story‚ which is the black people’s common psychological condition. Almost each black people in the story have the feeling of self-hatred. And the self-hatred deep inside their heart usually revealed in different indirect ways. For instance‚ Claudia could not help dismembering and destroying the doll with

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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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    The Bluest Eye “The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose‚ for it creates‚ in the end‚ the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion” This quote is explaining that if every book is censored that no-one will be able to think or say what they really feel. (Shultz). The Bluest Eye is a very controversial piece of literature. Many people say that it should be burned due to the many inhumane activities included. On the other side‚ there are plenty of reasons why

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    Topic #3 Effects of Racism on Sexual Lives of Characters in The Bluest Eye In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye‚ we are introduced to the adverse circumstances that surround the characters involving sex. We are asked to recognize that the major male characters—Cholly Breedlove‚ Mr. Henry‚ and Soaphead Church—are all attracted to young girls and the majority of these young girls are all victims in a short scholarly essay “The Bluest Eye Theme of Sex”. Cholly rapes his daughter Pecola‚ Mr. Henry fondles

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    The Bluest Eye is a complex novel written by Toni Morrison‚ an African American literary theorist. Morrison evokes a society still plagued by the premise of slavery and the exposes this mode of white inferiority through The Bluest Eye. “Wicked people love wickedly‚ violent people love violently‚ weak people love weakly‚ stupid people love stupidly‚ but the love of a free man is never safe”‚ Morrison endows these last couple of sentences with a lyrical quality that makes the readers truly understand

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