Growing Up In The Bluest Eye

Growing up is a part of life, we all go through it. In the book, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, a very different perspective on how life is for a young girl, Pecola is shown. Pecola is in the process of growing up and encounters various challenges as she is faced with a new side of the world. With these challenges, she matures and actually learns from all of this. Morrison shows how Pecola changes mentally and physically to understand who she truly is as a person.

In the beginning, Pecola has the feeling that she needs to have different colored eyes to have“beauty.” Pecola was looking at a doll she got and saw the eyes were blue, so she thought she needed blue eyes to be “beautiful.” “If she looked different, beautiful, maybe Cholly would be different, and Mrs.Breedlove too.” If Pecola was ‘different’ or ‘beautiful’ , her life would be completely different. In this claim, she …show more content…
In this situation, Junior tricks Pecola into entering in his house, and showing her a sign of trust, with a kitten, but turns out to have a vicious impact on Pecola. “There’s nobody here. My ma’s gone out, and my fathers at work. Don’t you want to see the kittens?” Pecola learns to not trust everyone, and learns that nice things can also have a deeper meaning.When she meets Junior, she learns what it means to trust someone.

In conclusion, Pecola has the feeling that she needs to have different colored eyes to have “beauty.” Pecola finds out what love is and what it can do. When she meets Junior, she learns what it means to trust someone. All of this, is an important part and contributes to how pecola starts evolving her character and mindset into a more mature young girl. We can learn various concepts on how hard life was for Pecola and maybe connect with these problems. We can have many different perspectives but overall it depends on how the person grasps these concepts and understands how to deal with