The Bluest Eye Essay

In the novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, the reader is introduced to Pecola Breedlove a girl that has been tortured and ridiculed throughout her young life. Pecola has no friends and is ridiculed by her classmates. As if this weren’t enough she is also abused and rejected by her family. Pecola Breedlove is the protagonist in this story due to the way that her character transforms throughout the story. Pecola Breedlove doesn’t have friends and and is ridicule by other kids her age. She is…

Bluest Eye Essay Vincent K. The novel,Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison describes the story of Pecola, a quiet,passive girl that is told numerous times that she is hideous that suffers from racial harassment. Her family does not help her through the horrible events. In fact her father,Cholly rapes her abuses her consistently.…

already decided the day he was born with black skin. Bigger had known all his life “that sooner or later something like this would come to him. He had always felt outside of this white world, and now it was true” (Wright 270). The characters in “The Bluest Eye” had a lifestyle similar to Biggers but not quite. They were familiar with the normalcy of poverty and what their boundaries were. The author writes, “Outdoors we knew was the terror of life. The threat of being outdoors surfaced…

that followed. Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye,” however takes a different approach from the traditional white versus black racism. The novel was written during the 60s and 70s; however it is set during the 1940s. In it Morrison depicts the lingering effects of constantly imposed white beauty being standardized in American society. By using characterization, she exposes a black community subscribed to the idea of a master narrative that light skin and blue eyes are beautiful. Thus, Morrison…

topic of racism in the novel, "The Bluest Eye", and the low self-esteem faced by young African American women, due to white culture. My research was guided by these ideas of racism and loss of self, suffered in the novel, by the main character Pecola Breedlove. This text generates many racial and social-cultural problems, dealing with the lost identity of a young African American women, due to her obsession with the white way of life, and her wish to have blue eyes, leading to her complete…

In the novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison, the author details the tragic story of a young African American girl named Pecola Breedlove, who is exposed to bias social constructs that results in her internalizing high levels of racist ideologies. The novel illustrates the controversy of the perpetration of Eurocentric beauty standards and how it affects the black community, specifically the children within it. Pecola is surrounded around the notion that white standards are favored…

In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Cholly, driven by multiple factors, rapes his daughter, and this scene is included for a certain purpose, as well. Cholly, the father, engages in nonconsensual intercourse with his daughter because of his alcoholic stupor and sense of freedom. Cholly is alcoholic because of the emptiness that cannot be filled with anything drink, seen when he describes, “Nothing, nothing, interested him now. Not himself, not other people. Only in drink was there some break,…

In the novel "The Bluest eye" by Tony Morrison, Morrison attempts to explore the meaning of beauty through the point of view of adolescent black girls as they tackle poverty, racism, sexism and the transition to adulthood. Morrison accomplishes this, through her writing she scrupulously decides which rhetoric devices to use in order to do so. Throughout her writing Morrison uses Scesis Onomaton to emphasize particular aspects she deems vital to the storytelling, while using symbolism to…

Morrison’s novel shows that Pecola’s desire for blue eyes is a demonstration of a community’s blind conviction of white’s definition of beauty: You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to were, and they had each accepted it without question. (28) The black community takes it for…

The Cultural Issues Toni Morrison Shows in The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon Most of Toni Morrison’s novels speak about cultural issues. These issues are centered around the black community, especially the women. An issue shown in The Bluest Eye is self-hate. Another issue shown in the Song of Solomon is financial greed. An analysis of The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon shows Morrison’s religious allusions, symbol of obsession, and a theme of escaping. First, Morrison uses religious…