Pecola In The Bluest Eye

Tony Morrison portrays a little girl by the name Pecola as the main character in his Novel, The Bluest Eye. Pecola thinks she is ugly because she is black and so is people around her. She is abused, neglected and she feels hatred within herself. She interacts with people both grown-ups and kids and they have shown her that she does not fit in their community. With the mentality of her being ugly, Pecola thinks by having blue eyes then her life would change and she would be termed be beautiful. She has been exposed to racism by both the whites and the African-American community which is her won race, which makes it more humiliating to her. She has no access to some places which is because of her color skin, especially she cannot access the American Dream. Pecola has experienced no love no affection, not even from her own family. The desire for having blue eyes shows her desperation of love and affection, to be accepted and loved in her family and in the community. The outcast position of Pecola in her own community is
The community should have upheld the black’s values and protect Pecola from the values of the white community. Now the black community has been corrupted by the values of the white community, from possession of black dolls to all bill boards in the community having white people. This destroyed Pecola’s thinking, having the desire of changing her life, having blue eyes would make her better. The change will make her feel loved and appreciated by her own family and by the community. She thinks by replacing her black self would be a solution to her desperate situation, she believes if she got the blue eyes then she would be another her and she would be treated in a better way. This is clearly that the community has affected Pecola in self-pity and not accepting whom she