Michael Williams Professor Henderson English 1B Sept. 28‚ 2011 The Males of 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
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In "The Bluest Eye"‚ author Toni Morrison builds a story around the concept of racial self-hatred and how it comes to exist in the mind of a young child. "The Bluest Eye" deals directly with the individual psychology of the main character‚ Pecola Breedlove. So intense are Pecola’s feelings of self-loathing and inferiority that she would do anything to soothe them. In her young mind‚ she needs a miracle; she needs the bluest eyes. All of the tragedies in this novel can be directed back to one main issue
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of racism in the novel‚ "The Bluest Eye"‚ and the low self-esteem faced by young African American women‚ due to white culture. My research was guided by these ideas of racism and loss of self‚ suffered in the novel‚ by the main character Pecola Breedlove. This text generates many racial and social-cultural problems‚ dealing with the lost identity of a young African American women‚ due to her obsession with the white way of life‚ and her wish to have blue eyes‚ leading to her complete transgression
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The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison Compare and contrast Claudia and Pecola in terms of their ability to fight injustice. How does this ability affect them later in the novel? It is not hard to notice the contrast between Claudia’s method to fight injustice and Pecola’s method. Claudia is a fighter and incredibly brave. She will not let the community that she lives in destroy her life. Therefore‚ she speaks up when she considers that something is unfair and wrong. Unlike Claudia‚ Pecola is
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and hard for people of color. It gives the reader an insight of what was really happening in those years. Yes racism is still here today but not as bad as it was back then. The superiority of white people is also shown ‚especially when we look at Pauline who is said to have been happy when she was with the rich white family she worked for‚ and saw
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African- American folklore is arguably the basis for most African- American literature. In a country where as late as the 1860’s there were laws prohibiting the teaching of slaves‚ it was necessary for the oral tradition to carry the values the group considered significant. Transition by the word of mouth took the place of pamphlets‚ poems‚ and novels. Themes such as the quest for freedom‚ the nature of evil‚ and the powerful verses the powerless became the themes of African- American literature
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In characters like Pecola‚ Mrs.‚ Breedlove‚ Maureen Peal the representations of sugar and white milk illustrate the competitive-success that they perpetuate even through food. For Claudia‚ Frieda‚ Mrs. MacTeer and Connie the dislike for sugar‚ milk and variety of healthy foods equates to
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In African-American texts‚ blacks are seen as struggling with the patriarchal worlds they live in order to achieve a sense of Self and Identity. The texts I have chosen illustrate the hazards of Western religion‚ Rape‚ Patriarchal Dominance and Colonial notions of white supremacy; an intend to show how the protagonists of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple as well as Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye‚ cope with or crumble due to these issues in their struggle to find their identities. The search for self-identity
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characters are both on journeys to discover their true selves. Both Pecola Breedlove (The Bluest Eye) and Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) experience dissimilar journeys when attempting to find their identity. Both characters are held back by their individual societies in the texts as they feel unable to express themselves openly. Pecola Breedlove is on a journey of learning to love herself and accepting who she is. Breedlove has multiple insecurities and “each night‚ without fail‚ she prayed for blue
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The Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison Summary and Analysis of Prologue and Autumn The Bluest Eye opens with two short untitled and unnumbered sections. The first section is a version of the classic Dick and Jane stories found in grade school reading primers. There is a pretty house‚ Mother‚ Father‚ Dick‚ Jane‚ a cat‚ a dog‚ and‚ at the end‚ a friend for Jane to play with. The same story appears three times in succession‚ repeated verbatim each time. The first time the text appears with full punctuation
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