Toni Morrison is known for using vastly descriptive details throughout her writing, she does this to make descriptive comparisons in order for the reader to connect with her work. In The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison uses description to make comparisons about beauty. In Recitatif Morrison uses details to describe Twyla and Roberta’s life. She uses detail to portray to her readers the hardship and struggles each and everyone of her characters face throughout the story. This use of description draws the reader in and makes them feel like they are part of the experience. The Bluest Eye is a novel about a young girl coming of age intertwined with a tragedy. The plot is based on Pecola believing that she is ugly and the only way for her to be beautiful
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For example, “The master had said, “You are ugly people.” They had looked about themselves and saw nothing to contradict the statement; saw in fact, support for it leaning at them from every billboard, every movie, every glance” (p. 38 Morrison). Another description of the standard of beauty used with a comparison would be, “Pecola Breedlove- wore their ugliness, put it on, so to speak, although it did not belong to them” (p. 38 Morrison). The idea of putting on ugly is almost saying she has to wear this, and carry it with her wherever she goes. Also by comparing the standard of beauty to being white we find this is why Pecola thinks she is ugly and not loved because she is black and does not fit the standard description of what it means to be …show more content…
They meet in a grocery store and Roberta invites her to have coffee, Roberta’s limo will take them. I think Morrison chose to include this description because once again she wants the reader to recognize stereotypes and try to decide the race of the characters. Stereotypically one might decide Roberta is white because she is being driven around in her limo. Once the local schools start integrating Twyla and Roberta’s friendship is no longer civil. They start protesting and making hateful signs directed at one another. For example, there signs get personal, “ Is your mother well?” this sign was directed at Roberta because Twyla knew her mother was sick. Later, Roberta accuses Twyla of abusing a mute girl at the orphanage. Twyla feels as though this is a wrongful accusation, and does not recall this happening. She later hears from Roberta again she is apologizing for wrongly accusing Twyla. Roberta admits that she wanted to hurt the mute girl Maggie and wanting to is as bad as doing it. Overall, in The Bluest Eye Morrison focuses a lot on description. She describes the standard of beauty constantly relating it back to being white. She makes comparisons between blacks and whites and their physical appearances which helps the readers understand why Pecola does not feel beautiful and why she thinks people do not love her. Morrison’s use of description in The Bluest eye helps the reader connect with Pecola and as a reader we feel for
For example, “The master had said, “You are ugly people.” They had looked about themselves and saw nothing to contradict the statement; saw in fact, support for it leaning at them from every billboard, every movie, every glance” (p. 38 Morrison). Another description of the standard of beauty used with a comparison would be, “Pecola Breedlove- wore their ugliness, put it on, so to speak, although it did not belong to them” (p. 38 Morrison). The idea of putting on ugly is almost saying she has to wear this, and carry it with her wherever she goes. Also by comparing the standard of beauty to being white we find this is why Pecola thinks she is ugly and not loved because she is black and does not fit the standard description of what it means to be …show more content…
They meet in a grocery store and Roberta invites her to have coffee, Roberta’s limo will take them. I think Morrison chose to include this description because once again she wants the reader to recognize stereotypes and try to decide the race of the characters. Stereotypically one might decide Roberta is white because she is being driven around in her limo. Once the local schools start integrating Twyla and Roberta’s friendship is no longer civil. They start protesting and making hateful signs directed at one another. For example, there signs get personal, “ Is your mother well?” this sign was directed at Roberta because Twyla knew her mother was sick. Later, Roberta accuses Twyla of abusing a mute girl at the orphanage. Twyla feels as though this is a wrongful accusation, and does not recall this happening. She later hears from Roberta again she is apologizing for wrongly accusing Twyla. Roberta admits that she wanted to hurt the mute girl Maggie and wanting to is as bad as doing it. Overall, in The Bluest Eye Morrison focuses a lot on description. She describes the standard of beauty constantly relating it back to being white. She makes comparisons between blacks and whites and their physical appearances which helps the readers understand why Pecola does not feel beautiful and why she thinks people do not love her. Morrison’s use of description in The Bluest eye helps the reader connect with Pecola and as a reader we feel for