Name: Samuel Huang
Major Works Data Sheet
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Title of the Work: The Bluest Eye
Author: Toni Morrison
Date of Publication: 1970 (2007)
Genre: Novel
Historical information about the Setting:
The novel takes place in Ohio after the Great Depression in the United States. There is still racial discrimination going on around this time and blacks still have fewer opportunities than whites. The fewer opportunities led to an economic insecurity for the blacks, which led to immobility of black families and the inability of black families to leave the South. The novel also covers the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between …show more content…
She is a Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor and professor. She lived in an integrated neighborhood, but did not become fully aware of the racial divisions until she was in her teens. After graduating from Lorain High School, Morrison went to Howard University, where she majored in English. In 1958, she married Harold Morrison, an architect from Jamaica, and they later had two kids. In 1993, she received the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, making her the first African American woman to be selected for that award. Morrison is now in her 80’s and she continues to be one of literature’s great …show more content…
Characters:
Name Role in the Story Significance Adjectives
Pecola Breedlove Main character She believes having blue eyes will make her beautiful, and she is abused and bullied by family members and classmates Ugly, abused, crazy
Cholly Breedlove Peccola’s father He takes out his early life humiliations on the women in his life including Pauline and Pecola Impulsive, violent, frustrated, free
Pauline (Polly) Breedlove Peccola’s mother She is in a terrible marriage and finds meaning in romantic movies and her work rather than her family Ugly, lonely, cold
Sammy Breedlove Peccola’s older brother He deals with the Breedlove’s family problems by running away from home Rebellious, afraid
Samson Fuller Cholly’s father He abandoned his wife when she got pregnant and rejected Cholly Short, mean, balding
Claudia MacTeer Narrator She fights against adults’ tyranny over children and the black community’s desire of the white beauty standards Independent, Strong- minded, rebellious
Frieda MacTeer Claudia’s sister She knows more about the adult world, but is also more vulnerable to the community’s desire of “white beauty” Independent, stubborn, knowledgeable, brave,
Major Works Data Sheet
This form must be typed.
Title of the Work: The Bluest Eye
Author: Toni Morrison
Date of Publication: 1970 (2007)
Genre: Novel
Historical information about the Setting:
The novel takes place in Ohio after the Great Depression in the United States. There is still racial discrimination going on around this time and blacks still have fewer opportunities than whites. The fewer opportunities led to an economic insecurity for the blacks, which led to immobility of black families and the inability of black families to leave the South. The novel also covers the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between …show more content…
She is a Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor and professor. She lived in an integrated neighborhood, but did not become fully aware of the racial divisions until she was in her teens. After graduating from Lorain High School, Morrison went to Howard University, where she majored in English. In 1958, she married Harold Morrison, an architect from Jamaica, and they later had two kids. In 1993, she received the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, making her the first African American woman to be selected for that award. Morrison is now in her 80’s and she continues to be one of literature’s great …show more content…
Characters:
Name Role in the Story Significance Adjectives
Pecola Breedlove Main character She believes having blue eyes will make her beautiful, and she is abused and bullied by family members and classmates Ugly, abused, crazy
Cholly Breedlove Peccola’s father He takes out his early life humiliations on the women in his life including Pauline and Pecola Impulsive, violent, frustrated, free
Pauline (Polly) Breedlove Peccola’s mother She is in a terrible marriage and finds meaning in romantic movies and her work rather than her family Ugly, lonely, cold
Sammy Breedlove Peccola’s older brother He deals with the Breedlove’s family problems by running away from home Rebellious, afraid
Samson Fuller Cholly’s father He abandoned his wife when she got pregnant and rejected Cholly Short, mean, balding
Claudia MacTeer Narrator She fights against adults’ tyranny over children and the black community’s desire of the white beauty standards Independent, Strong- minded, rebellious
Frieda MacTeer Claudia’s sister She knows more about the adult world, but is also more vulnerable to the community’s desire of “white beauty” Independent, stubborn, knowledgeable, brave,