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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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    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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    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 speak what is unspeakable. In other

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    Social Norms The characters in “The Bluest Eye” are exposed to social standards and norms. The book opens with an excerpt from the book “Dick and Jane”. This excerpt represents the perfect‚ ideal‚ suburban‚ white family. Each chapter in the book also begins with a quote from this book. This makes the lives of the black families in the book seem worse. The comparison of Dick and Jane’s family and life to that of the black families in the book demonstrates how the black families would compare themselves

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    The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison tell the story of Pecola Breedlove an innocent little girl looking for someone who love her‚ the relationship with her parents is terrible‚ her father rapes her‚ her mother and the rest of the community reject her‚ and she finish talking to an imaginary friend who is in fact the facet of her split personality. The Bluest Eye shows how racism infiltrates and destroys the psychological health of African Americans. In this story‚ Through Pecola‚ Morrison

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    The Bluest Eyes Shirley Temple‚ the little princess. Everything a young girl hoped and dreamed to be. The perfectly blond coifed hair‚ porcelain skin and bright ocean blue eyes. Thinking of her was enough for every young girl hope and aspire to be just like Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple in the Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison represents the American ideal girl and a representation of the stigma related to not being white in a society. In one way or another all of the characters in the Bluest Eyes

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    The Bluest Eye Finding good qualities in any of the men of The Bluest Eye are hard to come by. There are many factors that come into play that have shaped the personalities of all of these males. The female characters in the novel endured a lot in coping with the males. Toni Morrison does an exceptional job of painting a vivid picture of the social climate of America in the 1960’s and society’s affects on the people of The Bluest Eye. In a variety of ways‚ the males of The Bluest Eye have

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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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    " The Bluest Eye Everywhere we go there are going to be stereotypes that can affect us in our daily lives. Even stereotypes from years ago are still sometimes present today. For years Caucasian blue-eyed dolls was considered the best and most perfect gift for every little girl. For this time period it was considered perfect but many girls did not have the features that the doll had. This in some cases would affect minority’s‚ who would come to think that their features such as dark skin‚ and

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    “No one believed that a black African could write a good book” (Satwase). In the Bluest Eye Toni Morrison uses wrong and discomfort to show the crushing consequences that come from racism. In 1950 America‚ racial discrimination was implied by different skin colors. The Bluest Eye shows ways in which white beauty standards hurt lives of black females‚ blacks that discriminate on each other and the community’s bias on who you were. Toni Morrison uses the racism of the 1950 ’s and shows that "It is

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