Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye has garnered literary recognition for its exploration of contentious themes experienced by an African American child residing in a predominantly white community. These themes, including incest and rape, have also led to the book being subjected to censorship. The majority of The Bluest Eye is narrated by Claudia Macerate, an African American…

Pectoral is a very static character who changes very little throughout the book. “Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty” (Morrison 24). The Breadboxes live in a shack, a shanty, “a box Of peeling gray’ (Morrison 25). The house is very boring and doesn’t…

In the article Taking Refuge in “How:” Dissecting the Motives Behind Cholly’s Rape in The Bluest Eye by Rebecca Andrews, Andrews talks about the motives behind Cholly raping Pecola. This article shows how Andrews believes “… that Cholly is giving his daughter the only form of love he knows how to express…” In order for…

Becoming Beautiful Toni Morrison, in her afterward for The Bluest Eye, writes much about her disappointment with the initial response from the novel. She describes the initial publication as, “like Pecola’s life: dismissed, trivialized, misread. ” Morrison, after nearly thirty years, is finally now satisfied with the attention that Pecola and her story is receiving….

The parents of the children in the Bluest Eye have a strong influence over their children that black is ugly. Pectoral is aware that she is ugly and she believes if she has blue eyes that will fix everything. 2. Pectoral has been hurt the most by racism in the society. Starting with her family,…

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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 Pectoral Broadleaved, a black 11-year-old girl who is raped by her father, Coolly. Eliciting sympathy…

The Bluest Eye is a complex book – disturbing yet relatively easy to read. Toni Morrison adds complexity to the hidden depth of the text by playing with the narrative structure. Throughout the book, the author presents a series of point of views, taking turns in narrating the story. However, by the end of the…

Through Piccolo’s journey for her own set of blue eyes, we learn about the main black characters and their quest for something more, and how they respond to the dominating white culture and society. Pauline Overlooked, who is Piccolo’s mother, learned about beauty and why she was not beautiful through movies and through her experiences…

Adult women, having learned to hate the blackness of their own bodies, take this hatred out on their children-?Mrs.. Overlooked shares the conviction that Pectoral is ugly, and lighter-skinned Geraldine curses Piccolo’s blackness. Claudia remains free from this worship of whiteness, imagining Piccolo’s unborn baby as beautiful in its blackness. But it is hinted that…