As a noble prize and Pulitzer winner for her writing, Toni Morrison has become a major modern Afro American women novelists of American literature. In her first book The Bluest Eyes we get a personal look into the destructive effects of race, gender or class on an individual and mostly with a woman in a white, male dominated society that is America in the early 1940s’ Ohio. These themes are the epicenter and concerns of three pre-teen African American girls, Pecola, Claudia and Frieda. There are many instances, we see when white culture and products reemphasize black people’s difference from the norms of whites and alienate them, while ingrain a sense of inferiority and self-hatred. We also witness a self-alienation in their own country and while permitting white conditions which black parents
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In this novel, one child is traumatized into silence while the other survives and return to where the story takes place as an adult to cope and come to terms with their traumatic past. By employing a child narrator, Morrison shows how children negotiate different binaries between white beauty and black beauty, between higher and lower economic classes, and between upper caste and lower caste, between male privileges and female de-privileges. Morrison makes her survivor character, Claudia, attest with as an immediate witness to the acts of silencing for her traumatized counterpart,
In this novel, one child is traumatized into silence while the other survives and return to where the story takes place as an adult to cope and come to terms with their traumatic past. By employing a child narrator, Morrison shows how children negotiate different binaries between white beauty and black beauty, between higher and lower economic classes, and between upper caste and lower caste, between male privileges and female de-privileges. Morrison makes her survivor character, Claudia, attest with as an immediate witness to the acts of silencing for her traumatized counterpart,