The Different Racial Dilemmas Between Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Jazz
Toni Morrison, author of the award-winning novel Beloved, expresses her thoughts of racial division throughout two of her novels, The Bluest Eye and Jazz. However, she expresses her racial opinion in different manners throughout both novels. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye tells the story of young Pecola Breedlove’s dilemma of being an African American trying to face the hardships of sharing a world with an overpowering white population in the same city, and her being raped by her father, Cholly Breedlove. Likewise, Jazz displays the same racial dilemma, but involves the jealousy of a wife and a murder of an eighteen-year-old girl, along with heavy confusion that keeps the reader full of questions throughout the story. Though the points of the novels differ, the bases of them coincide: they are both based on racial difficulties of African Americans fitting into the white society in the American city.
First in comparison, both of Morrison’s novels are based highly on racial struggles between “blacks and whites,” as she refers to the two groups. Pecola Breedlove from The Bluest Eye already feels that she and her family are cursed with a …show more content…
One of the few differences between these novels is the time era; while The Bluest Eye is set in the 1940s, Jazz is set in the 1920s, during the Great Migration. Most of the black people moved to Harlem, New York, which is known greatly today for its history of jazz music, and the white people who had already been making their homes in that city did not accept the newcomers. One-third of Toni Morrison’s plot of the novel was to tell about the blacks’ struggle to get their freedom. The other two-thirds dealt with the blacks’ using jazz music for expression, and the story of a
Toni Morrison, author of the award-winning novel Beloved, expresses her thoughts of racial division throughout two of her novels, The Bluest Eye and Jazz. However, she expresses her racial opinion in different manners throughout both novels. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye tells the story of young Pecola Breedlove’s dilemma of being an African American trying to face the hardships of sharing a world with an overpowering white population in the same city, and her being raped by her father, Cholly Breedlove. Likewise, Jazz displays the same racial dilemma, but involves the jealousy of a wife and a murder of an eighteen-year-old girl, along with heavy confusion that keeps the reader full of questions throughout the story. Though the points of the novels differ, the bases of them coincide: they are both based on racial difficulties of African Americans fitting into the white society in the American city.
First in comparison, both of Morrison’s novels are based highly on racial struggles between “blacks and whites,” as she refers to the two groups. Pecola Breedlove from The Bluest Eye already feels that she and her family are cursed with a …show more content…
One of the few differences between these novels is the time era; while The Bluest Eye is set in the 1940s, Jazz is set in the 1920s, during the Great Migration. Most of the black people moved to Harlem, New York, which is known greatly today for its history of jazz music, and the white people who had already been making their homes in that city did not accept the newcomers. One-third of Toni Morrison’s plot of the novel was to tell about the blacks’ struggle to get their freedom. The other two-thirds dealt with the blacks’ using jazz music for expression, and the story of a