The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. 224 pp. New York: Holt‚ Rinehart and Winston. $8.95. The Bluest Eye‚ set during the 1940s after the end of the Great Depression in Lorain‚ Ohio‚ tells the heartbreaking story of eleven year old Pecola Breedlove‚ who perpetually prays for blues so she can be as beautiful and loved as blue-eyed‚ white American children. Pecola believes that she’s destined to live a tragic life due to her perceived ugliness‚ which is constantly reinforced by the way the people in her
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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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Claudia MacTeer Claudia suffers from the same mentality of most of the characters in the novel; she is insecure about materialistic things and knows that beauty belongs to white people. Claudia does not believe white is beautiful because she sees it‚ but because she is told and exposed to how others view beauty. Claudia believes white is beautiful because everyone who is older says it is. Claudia subconsciously defines beauty as having a good personality. When Claudia is given a doll for Christmas
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Read the Following passage and in a well written essay discuss how the author Toni Morrison uses stylistic devices to convey the tone of the time period (1941‘s) through Claudia’s eyes. Passage: Pg 10 Stylistic Essay: The Bluest Eye In the passage from The Bluest Eye‚ written by Toni Morrison‚ the author writes about difficult challenges that not only the young girls in the book have to face but everyone of that time has to endure. Taking place in the 1940’s the author uses many stylistic
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Errick Pope Pope 1 English 1102 Dr. Barker January 23‚ 2013 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison’s‚ The Bluest Eye is a novel about the events that occurred in America during the 1940s. It is mainly about an African American family‚ the Breedloves‚ and their everyday struggle to cope with the situations they faced during that time. In the 1940s‚ African Americans had to deal with
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Common Core Research Paper Analysis on The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye is a story that describes the life of a young African American girl named Pecola Breedlove whom was wrapped up in a life of poverty and hardship growing up and made to believe that she was ugly by the early 1940’s American society. Pecola Breedlove was a young girl growing up black and very poor in the early 1940s. During her life she was tormented and teased ugly by almost everyone that was a part of her life or whom she encountered
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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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Self-hatred in the Bluest Eye After reading the Bluest Eye‚ the readers will be impressed by the atmosphere of depression and anxiety. One main reason for that is the self-hatred in the story‚ which is the black people’s common psychological condition. Almost each black people in the story have the feeling of self-hatred. And the self-hatred deep inside their heart usually revealed in different indirect ways. For instance‚ Claudia could not help dismembering and destroying the doll with
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What Is Beauty? “It’s true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” A well-known quote by famous author Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. The Bluest Eye a novel written by Toni Morrison‚ the theme beauty comes into place. In the novel; the reader is introduced to two protagonists who share a similar belief to what the standard of beauty is. Pecola Breedlove describes herself to be the opposite of what beauty is. Unlike Pecola‚ Claudia Macteer despises what the standard of beauty is. Pecola Breedlove
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Toni Morrison’s novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ is about a young‚ black girl growing up in a not so accepting America. Pecola‚ the protagonist in the book‚ is set apart from everyone. White people don’t want to associate themselves with her. And even black people don’t want to associate themselves with her either. She lives in this world that would ultimately destroy her and make her go insane. Critics Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Phyllis R. Klotman explore many major themes in the book that sheds light
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