An Analysis Of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye and why it needed to be so messed up Toni Morrison is known for her unique style of writing. Her raw and unforgiving style lends itself to speaking about topics that are hard to understand the deep nature of. She has a way of speaking to an audience that few other authors have. In The Bluest Eye she uses this style of writing to convey the harsh reality faced by black girls in the 1940s. Pecola in particular has a miserable life which can only be fully understood through Morrison's unique style. Without this style of writing the message of The Bluest Eye would not be as evident as it is. Toni Morrison's style is essential to the message of The Bluest Eye. Without this style the reader would not be able to truly feel what the characters do and there for the reader would miss the purpose of the book. During the opening chapter of the book Pecola gets her first period and is taken aback because she doesn't know what is happening. Morrison describes this by saying, “Suddenly Precola bolted straight up, her eyes wide with terror...Blood was running down her legs. Some …show more content…
The raw and emotional style of this passage is needed to demonstrate how awful this event is. “The gigantic thrust he made into her then provoked the only sound she made-a hollow suck of air in the back of her throat. Like the rapid loss of air from a circus balloon” (Morrison 163). It is possible to imagine what happens when someone is raped but is is totally different to have it be described in absolute detail. There is no other way that Morrison would have provoked this kind of emotion from the reader. This passage shows Pecola at the worst moment of her life. This shows the reader just how bad her life is. There is nothing that can even compare to this imagery. Morrison's writing absolutely crucial to the style of the