The Bluest Eye Research Paper

Innovate to bring something new into existence, or significantly change something that is already established (Dictionary, 2018). I will be examining the process of innovation utilized by Toni Morrison in her literature of The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison uses children, particularly a black girl to be the center of the story. She is innovative in that she uses the most delicate and vulnerable person in America: a black woman. It is through these eyes that we take a close look at some of the most complex, difficult, and messy topics in our present day. These include: internalized -racism, gender, beauty and whiteness, abuse, rape, slavery, and exploitation. Alongside those uncomfortable realities she delves deep into the attitudes, perceptions, …show more content…
She takes us through the journey of what it would mean to know that you’re inferior but there are versions of beauty that will bring you joy, validation, honor and love. Blue eyes, blonde hair, and pink-pale skin were the messages sent to black girls of what was beautiful. Racism had profound horrible effects on the African American community and also on their children. “She be lucky if it don’t live. Bound to be the ugliest thing walking.”( p.189). How can it be that a parent can look down on his/her child and not believe them? “You don’t understand anything do you? She didn’t believe me when I told her.’ ( P. …show more content…
They had a deep desire to see the black baby live, to make it, to matter to others as much as it mattered to them. This was important because it juxtaposed with the value given to white dolls-blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll that had resulted in black kids feeling inferior, ugly, and disposable. Interestingly, in this case they wished, longed, and wanted a black baby to live which was of greater importance than their wishes to become white little girls. They understood that whiteness entailed a different kind of