In the novels Youth and The Bluest Eye, the narrative is ambiguous to the characters. In The Bluest Eye, there are multiple narrative perspectives that equips a more knowledgeable response to the events of the novel. The novel jumps around in characters lives to explain a better perspective to why some characters act the way they do or how past events shape them to whom they are in current events. In Youth, the main character 's perspective is vague. The narrative expresses to what the character wants, imagines, does on his daily tasks, but it misses an emotional connection to the character, there is no personal dialogue or ‘I’ statements. The main character 's life is explained in a neutral tone that seems to simply explain the history of
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The novel does not maintain stability with its narration because it becomes distorted with the madness that Pecola eventually is sucked into because of this ideal that she wants to become. First, in the beginning of the novel, the ideal of a perfect American white family is introduced through a reading of a elementary school book of a Mother, Father, and two siblings, Dick and Jane. Jane is whom Pecola wants to become. On page three, the paragraph is written out as a copy from a passage of one of the Dick and Jane stories, and it can suggests to Pecola 's mental state before she started to become addicted to the image of Jane. In the second paragraph, on page four, the same paragraph is written, but it loses punctuation, and becomes an image to how Pecola starts to lose her sense of worth--her identity. Then, the last paragraph is the same passage, but it loses all punctuation, as if it shows the passage to not have any meaning, just like Pecola becomes to feel when she is infatuated to be a beautiful and adored. The usage of this passage, the perspective from the Dick and Jane books, …show more content…
Pecola, and the other young black girls in the novel, are psychologically damaged by this ideal of beautiful that is defined by the white culture; Morrison tries to give the courage that black is beautiful, but the couraged is beaten down with fear for being black because it is seen as ugly. On page 46, the narrator explains how boys at her school would lower her self-esteem more by mocking other boys to loving Pecola: “...when one of the girls at school wanted to be particularly insulting to a boy...she could say, ‘Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove! Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove!’ and never fail to get reals of laughter from those in earshot, and mock and mock anger from the accused” (46). Even more, the narrator emphasizes that “if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different” (46). Pecola is constantly trying to convince herself that if these little aspects of her could change, maybe she can be appreciated. Pecola lives in the double conscious, trying to gain approval from everyone, even though it slowly starts to cripple her own
The novel does not maintain stability with its narration because it becomes distorted with the madness that Pecola eventually is sucked into because of this ideal that she wants to become. First, in the beginning of the novel, the ideal of a perfect American white family is introduced through a reading of a elementary school book of a Mother, Father, and two siblings, Dick and Jane. Jane is whom Pecola wants to become. On page three, the paragraph is written out as a copy from a passage of one of the Dick and Jane stories, and it can suggests to Pecola 's mental state before she started to become addicted to the image of Jane. In the second paragraph, on page four, the same paragraph is written, but it loses punctuation, and becomes an image to how Pecola starts to lose her sense of worth--her identity. Then, the last paragraph is the same passage, but it loses all punctuation, as if it shows the passage to not have any meaning, just like Pecola becomes to feel when she is infatuated to be a beautiful and adored. The usage of this passage, the perspective from the Dick and Jane books, …show more content…
Pecola, and the other young black girls in the novel, are psychologically damaged by this ideal of beautiful that is defined by the white culture; Morrison tries to give the courage that black is beautiful, but the couraged is beaten down with fear for being black because it is seen as ugly. On page 46, the narrator explains how boys at her school would lower her self-esteem more by mocking other boys to loving Pecola: “...when one of the girls at school wanted to be particularly insulting to a boy...she could say, ‘Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove! Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove!’ and never fail to get reals of laughter from those in earshot, and mock and mock anger from the accused” (46). Even more, the narrator emphasizes that “if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different” (46). Pecola is constantly trying to convince herself that if these little aspects of her could change, maybe she can be appreciated. Pecola lives in the double conscious, trying to gain approval from everyone, even though it slowly starts to cripple her own