Jennifer Diaz AP English III Summer‚ 2012 AP Short Form: The Bluest Eye * Main Characters * Pecola Breedlove: She is an eleven year old black girl who believes she is ugly. She wishes for blue eyes to make her feel beautiful which is granted at the cost of her sanity. * Claudia McTeer: The narrator for parts of the novel. She is a very strong minded nine year old who fights for good causes. She is a stable force throughout the story. * Minor Characters * Cholly Breedlove: The
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Vanessa Mateo AP English The Beauty and Race Subjectivity in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes In The Bluest Eye‚ author Toni Morrison uses a combination of race and beauty as factors that contribute to a culture’s creation of artificial scale of beauty. An establishment of an artificial scale of beauty showing how a race and culture values are easily being disallowed by the ideology of being the perfect beauty of a human being. Morrison uses characters such as Claudia Macteer
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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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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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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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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 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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