The Bluest Eye‚ a fiction novel that shows the story of Pecola Breedlove. Pecola‚ an eleven year old black girl lives a nightmare at the heart of her yearning in this time of her life. She moves with Claudia Macteer‚ who is also a black girl. During the time they are together we can see differences and similarities in both of the children and their families. Pecola and Claudia had similarities and differences. Pecola had always dreamed of having big blue eyes. This was a synonym of beauty
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they try to be‚ often leading that person to question whether they feel justified in their conformity. Ultimately though‚ guilt coming from a questioning of conformity is easier to live with than the admittance of unchangeable insecurities. In The Bluest Eye‚ Pecola Breedlove shows that when stripped of any ability to achieve outward conformity‚ the pointlessness of self-hatred forcibly endured will result in extreme methods of escape‚ in her case‚
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The Bluest Eye‚ written in 1970‚ is novel by Toni Morrison. It is Morrison’s first novel and was written while she was teaching at Howard University. The Bluest Eye tells the tragic story of Pecola Breedlove‚ a young black girl growing up in Morrison’s hometown of Lorain‚ Ohio‚ during the hard times following the Great Depression. In this novel‚ Toni Morrison addresses a timeless problem of white racial dominance in the United States and points to the impact it has on the life of black females growing
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provokes us to become better‚ to look at the horrors of our past so we strive for a better future. With her subjectivity towards racism‚ Toni Morrison paved the way for an entire generation of African American women. With her two famous books “The Bluest Eye” and “Sula‚” she gave a voice to their worthiness and beauty. As soon as Toni Morrison was born‚ her parents moved to the North‚ to escape the problems of southern racism. Morrison’s father‚ George Wofford‚ from an early age discussed
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The characters of The Bluest Eye suffer from the racial standards of society‚ stating that blacks are superior to whites. Society corrupted the lives of blacks and whites alike‚ where whites believed that they were superior to blacks‚ therefore causing whites to treat black people inferiorly. In turn‚ the victims of this behavior were impacted severely‚ as they started to believe that they were ugly and unacceptable‚ because of their skin color. Therefore‚ they strived to be white‚ in order to be
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"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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