Feminism In The Bluest Eye

1. This novel is a feminist text because it highlights the issues and discrimination that African American girls in women faced as children and as grown woman. For an example, the book focuses more on the experiences of the female characters. When the male characters are introduced, they may get a paragraph or two about themselves, but the females get pages.
2. Claudia is the narrator of The Bluest Eye most likely because she is connected to all the characters the most. Furthermore, she defies the gender norms of society and offers a unique perspective. Claudia does not conform to the role of the little girl. She was more interested in curiosity and playing outside versus being taught how to be a mother through dolls. She feels there should be no gender restrictions.
3. Beauty has problem been created since the dawn of time and is subjective to the eye of the beholder. To elaborate, someone that I may find “beautiful” may be different from what you find “beautiful”. Parameters for beauty of men is to be muscular and tall, women to be petite and long hair, black people to have light skin, and white people to be tanned. These change as we go from culture to culture; being obese is beautiful in Jamaica, while it isn’t in America. At some …show more content…
Racism in the novel is used as a source that other problems branch out from. To elaborate, racism is the trunk of the tree and problems throughout the novel are the branches, which is what the novel illustrates more of. For an example, Pecola family issues do not stem from racism, but from the racism her father experienced. My expansion of racism has remained the same throughout the novel. A lot of the stuff that has took placed during the novel, I have or know someone that has experienced it. Classism is present throughout the novel by illustrating the different “levels” of African Americans. You had the “ni**ers” and the “colored”. Juniors family was among “colored” and thought everyone else was among the