The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio on February 18, 1931. She graduated from Lorain High School with honors. Morrison lived in an integrated neighborhood and was not aware of racial divisions until her teens. She told a reporter once that she was the only black child in her first grade class and the only one that could read. Morrison loved to read which is how she gained a love for writing. Morrison’s writings produce poetic phases and strong emotions. “So precise,so faithful to speech and so changed with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.” says The New York Times. Her characters try to understand the world that they are living in. Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye focuses on race, beauty, society,
In the book, Mrs. Breedlove tells us that Cholly was not always like that. After the first child was born, Cholly began to change and he went back to old ways and Mrs. Breedlove became fed up with him. He began to drink everyday and they began to hate each other. She wanted to leave him and claim that he did not need her. Pages 161-163 tells us how one afternoon Cholly comes home drunk. He watched his daughter, Pecola, clean the kitchen. Morrison says that what he felt as he watches her turns in pleasure. He wondered why she was so unhappy and why she loved him so much after all her haunted, loving eyes had seen. He wondered how he could make her happy. He wondered how he could return the love. As Pecola shifts her body, he remember that Mrs. Breedlove did the same thing when he first saw her. He remembered what he did then and he did it now. Cholly crawled on all fours and grabbed Pecola foot, he used his other hand to grab her hip to keep her balance. He nibbled at her leg and dug his fingers into her hips. He got excited. Morrison says that Cholly wanted to freak her tenderly. He made a gigantic thrust into her and provoked he sound she made. There was a hopeless but stubborn struggle to be free or from some emotion but Cholly could not tell. He just wanted to prove to her that he loved her. He loved her enough to give her some of him. Morrison told us about the horror of
Peocola wonders about love throughout book after receiving her first menstrual cycle. She asked Frieda what was it, and Frieda just said that it was nothing and it meant she could have babies. Later that night, she asked Frieda how does she have babies and Frieda responded that somebody had to love her in order for her to have a baby. Pecola then asks a question no one has an answer to, “How do you do that? How do you get somebody to love you?” Later in the book, Pecola goes to visit the three whores since they were the only one nice to her. While visiting the whores, Pecola asks Miss Marie about her many boyfriends and how do they all love her. Miss Marie responds that they all loved her because she’s rich, good-looking, and they want to put their toes in her curly hair. Pecola then wondered what did love feel like and how do people act when they love each other. Pecola’s wonders about love does not stop but she only wants to be loved. Because of her ugliness she is not lovable and wishes for white features to be lovable. In the end of the book, it tells us that Pecola was loved. The whores loved her. Cholly loved her enough to do the things he did to her and impregnate her only for her to lose the child. “Love is never any better than the lover.” (206) People will love the way they are. Evil people with love evilly, violent people will love violently, and lovely people will love lovely. She believed she