the bluest eye
The Bluest Eye
In her novel The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison emphasizes three major events that are both personal and historical because they affected her at the time when she was writing the novel. She writes about a personal event about a childhood who wanted blue eyes to be beautiful, which puzzled her and changed her perception of what real beauty really was and who were the ones considered beautiful or ugly. There were also a couple of historical events that she mentions in the novel that affected her in some way and helped her realize the struggles going on in the country at that time.
During her childhood, Toni Morrison had a friend whose desire to have blue eyes was bigger than anything she ever wanted. The reason why she wanted to have blue eyes was because in her mind blue eyes were considered the symbol of beauty and to her, anybody that had them were beautiful. This was not a good experience for Morrison because it shocked her a bit for the reason that she did not think of her friend as being pretty and was horrified at the thought of imagining what she would look like with blue eyes. Bringing up the revelation about beauty that beauty itself was not just something to behold, but rather something you can do to yourself. Even though she was confused by her friend’s desire, she understood where it could have possibly came from. Her friend was insecure and hated the way she looked, but if she had blue eyes she thought everything would be different and she would be pretty. Another thing that she thought might have influenced this way of thinking was that everything in society was about white people and this made her begin to accept the white beauty standards because of the place they received all over the country. But the questions that puzzled her the most about the source of this desire were, who told her?, who told her it was better to be a freak than who she was?, who told her she wasn’t beautiful?
In the novel this personal event is seen in a similar
In her novel The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison emphasizes three major events that are both personal and historical because they affected her at the time when she was writing the novel. She writes about a personal event about a childhood who wanted blue eyes to be beautiful, which puzzled her and changed her perception of what real beauty really was and who were the ones considered beautiful or ugly. There were also a couple of historical events that she mentions in the novel that affected her in some way and helped her realize the struggles going on in the country at that time.
During her childhood, Toni Morrison had a friend whose desire to have blue eyes was bigger than anything she ever wanted. The reason why she wanted to have blue eyes was because in her mind blue eyes were considered the symbol of beauty and to her, anybody that had them were beautiful. This was not a good experience for Morrison because it shocked her a bit for the reason that she did not think of her friend as being pretty and was horrified at the thought of imagining what she would look like with blue eyes. Bringing up the revelation about beauty that beauty itself was not just something to behold, but rather something you can do to yourself. Even though she was confused by her friend’s desire, she understood where it could have possibly came from. Her friend was insecure and hated the way she looked, but if she had blue eyes she thought everything would be different and she would be pretty. Another thing that she thought might have influenced this way of thinking was that everything in society was about white people and this made her begin to accept the white beauty standards because of the place they received all over the country. But the questions that puzzled her the most about the source of this desire were, who told her?, who told her it was better to be a freak than who she was?, who told her she wasn’t beautiful?
In the novel this personal event is seen in a similar