The Bluest Eye Essay

Kiara Gosling Professor Barnswell English 150 17 September 2015 In the quote excerpted from the novel " The Bluest Eye" author Toni Morrison explains the phenomenon love. Morrison explains that the act of love or how it is conveyed is entirely dependent upon the lover. Through her use of diction and tone, Morrison expresses the idea that love is only defined and given substance by the lovers personality and or character. Though some might consider Morrisons points debatable, I agree that…

people go through, including the life choices made, makes them who they are later on in life. At least that’s what everyone is told. However, what happened in the past shouldn’t induce your life choices in the future. For Cholly Breedlove, in The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison his incapability of being able to love others in the past, created challenges for him in the future. Cholly Breedlove's lack of knowledge on various life lessons leads him to rape his own daughter, twice. Cholly not only has…

In her novel, The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison tells the story of a young girl and her community as she learns what she must do as a woman and the importance of reaching an impossible standard of beauty. Tim O’Brien shares stories from the Vietnam war in his novel, The Things They Carried. His book details the hardship men face during war as well as their relationship with the women in their lives. In both novels, a strict code for how a woman is to act in society is presented along with a specific…

The Bluest Eye fits into the study of the American novel because it tells the story of a group of Americans, who are descendants of slaves, and live in a society where, despite the fact that numerous individuals deny it, the color of their skin determines who they are and what privileges they are entitled to. This specific novel inspects the impact of a kind of seeing that is refracted through the lens of racism by victims of racism themselves. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison recounts the story…

Morrison’s first novel The Bluest Eye makes a scathing attack on the imposition of white standards of beauty on black women and the creation of cultural perversion and also presents the concept of motherhood has been distorted by racial ideology. The purpose…

The narrative styles of Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye and Anna Smith’s one-woman documentary play, Twilight, Los Angeles are utilized to tell stories that are too difficult, or in some cases impossible, for the individuals involved to tell on their own. Each text merges first and third person narrative techniques. In Twilight, Los Angeles Smith essentially blends first and third person narrative perspectives in order to present a multitude of first person accounts of the Los Angeles…

Though set in dissimilar contexts, the protagonists within Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, share some striking similarities. Both texts convey how society’s prejudices towards young women profoundly impacts their development of identity and individuality through experiences with racism, sexism and relationships. Pecola and Ifemelu are both confronted with racial criticism and discrimination, which have influenced their understanding of social…

The Bluest Eye: Socratic Seminar further analyzed interesting parts of Morrison’s chapter, autumn. First, I thought it was an interesting that white standards of beauty today are not as prominent as it was in the past, but as society evolved these issues plaguing our society has also evolved into different forms. For example, in the modeling career there is diversity among campaigns like Aerie and as Emily experienced first-hand, beauty touches today are with physical makeup instead of edits…

Upon further review, the “biracial” aspect of a person is considered a part of “beauty” standards in a way. Despite there being only two biracial citizens in The Bluest Eye, they are seen as beautiful compared to other African-Americans. Despite being a man Frieda and Claudia have to steer clear from, Soaphead Church is a biracial character whose ancestry he is proud of despite the fact that it is a high probability that their White ancestor – Sir Whitcomb – raped a slave. In fact, his family is…

black girl Pecola. She longs for the bluest eyes which is the symbol of white beauty. She believes that she can be beautiful by having them and the world will treat her differently. She becomes a victim of the standards of beauty. She does not have her own self-esteem. She has no one to show her compassion. She is tormented by candy store owner, Pauline Breedlove and her classmates. She once questioned Frieda, “…how do you get somebody to love you?” (The Bluest Eye 23) reveals her longing for…