The Bluest Eye Essay

their sensitive, blue eyes. Instead, the touch of the sun burned them if they stepped out of the shadows. Donald B. Gibson, through his writing of Text and Countertext in the Bluest Eye, stepped into the shadows that were created by racism and elaborated upon the ideas Toni Morrison introduced in The Bluest Eye. Donald B. Gibson described the purpose behind the text and countertext structure of the novel and how it served much more than simply identifying racism within The Bluest Eye. Gibson’s…

belief that all members of each race possess characteristics for abilities specific to that race, especially to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race. Although racism is one of the main themes in Toni Morrison's 1970 hit novel The Bluest Eye, the focus of this article is how…

other African Americans affected by this. Leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. lead the march and helped in ending discrimination against genders and racers, those especially in the minorities category. The Color Purple (Alice Walker) and The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison) are written by two African American Woman who have had their struggles growing up. The novels tie into the 60’s era, the time of discrimination and history of the civil rights movement and play a major role in advocating both…

The Different Racial Dilemmas Between Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Jazz Toni Morrison, author of the award-winning novel Beloved, expresses her thoughts of racial division throughout two of her novels, The Bluest Eye and Jazz. However, she expresses her racial opinion in different manners throughout both novels. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye tells the story of young Pecola Breedlove’s dilemma of being an African American trying to face the hardships of sharing a world with an overpowering…

protagonist Pecola Breedlove, wishes to have the blue eyes of a white girl so that she can finally be seen as beautiful and valuable, this of course based on a standard made by systemic racism. The novel describes her wish by saying that “It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held the pictures...were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would would be different...Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes.” (Morrison, page 46) At a later…

sometimes isn’t what people want to hear. Both positive, and negative outcomes can emerge from the grasp of the truth. Sometimes hiding from a frightening truth seems ideal, which is what the characters like Pecola and Claudia did in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Occasionally, after discovering…

In response to the assigned reading from the Bluest Eye, the young girl Claudia expresses her feelings toward the most adored blue eyed doll. Claudia was a black girl; the blue eyed doll was a white doll. It was not only the world that found it pretty but her sister Frieda too. Claudia could not comprehend what everyone saw in that doll. In my perspective the reason Claudia felt so much hate against that doll was due to many reasons. She was a young black girl, she observed how everyone would…

Fiji caused the number of eating disorders in high schools to go from 0 to 2 out of every 5 students in just 10 years. The media has an effect on internal beauty standards and eating disorders on both men and women. In Toni Morrison’s book, The Bluest Eye, Pecola, a young black girl feels like the ugliest person in the world. “Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs--all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child…

The Bluest Eye, Sex, Race, Gender, and Pecola Sex is an integral part of the human experience, and each community approaches sex in a way that reflect its culture and perceptions. In the Bluest Eyes, one can derive many observations about the social and cultural values of the community at hand by evaluating characters’ sexuality, sexual experiences, and their perception towards it. Sex in the Bluest Eye is shameful, humiliating, and oppressive, exposing a culture of racial oppression, gender…

The Bluest Eyes written by Toni Morrison narrates the story of a young black girl that suffers with a desire to have the bluest eyes in town. It is a heartbreaking novel based on the facts that racial beauty in the sixties was a necessary action, the standards established by a white society that determined the aesthetic parameters, had to open its spectrum to include as natural in its bosom the "beauty" in another color; in black. This necessary affirmation of the black beauty should not be a…