The Bluest Eye Essay

In the beginning of the book The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, the readers are introduced to the main characters. The scene opens up to Claudia, an African-American girl living in the dark racism time of the United States. Being young, she describes her difficulty with understanding the adults, and the privileged lives of the same Caucasian girls. Claudia amoung with her sister, Frieda, collect coal for their family. During one of their trips, she catches a cold and her mother scolds her. This…

The exploration of the sense of self through both the “The Bluest Eye’ and “The Complete Persepolis’ can be distinguished as similar but severely complex. Bildungsroman formats the journey of love, independence and identity for characters development. ‘The Bluest Eye’ endures reconciliations between the protagonist, Claudia MacTeer and the world as she recalls a childhood memoir of being surrounded by “ruined” (Morrison, p.101) women, a corrupt family and a misfortunate lifestyle. Similarly,…

In the novel The Bluest Eye Morrison 's message of beauty is related to society 's perception and acceptance of white culture and its impact on African Americans that causes them to question their self worth in a racist society; the author demonstrates these concepts through, direct characterization, symbols, and various point of views that highlight the serious problem of psychological oppression on young African American children in which racism impacts their self perception of their beauty by…

Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye, reflects the feminist theory throughout the novel. Characters narrate the novel from different point of views to help understand the story of the protagonist, Pecola Breedlove, and the hardships of growing up as a young black girl. The eleven-year-old fails to get help because of the suffering from other characters, which eventually contributes to her fate. The feminist theory is presented by Pecola’s desire to be beautiful, black women resisting…

Morrison has made a constant effort to bring to the consciousness of her readers the history of black slaves in America. Her texts The Bluest Eye and Beloved vivdly portray this. Rushdy asserts to this thus: ‘Beloved is the product of and a contribution to a historical moment in which African American historiography is in a state of fervid revision’ (44-5). In a bid to bring these experiences to the consciousness of her readers, Morrison traces Beloved to the story of Margaret Garner, a slave…

In life, judgment is quick and easy while empathy takes time and effort. In Toni Morrison 's book, The Bluest Eye, we learn the value of investing the time and effort necessary to understanding the complex history behind Cholly Breedlove 's reprehensible actions. Although this understanding cannot lead us to forgiveness of such cruelty, it can perhaps lead us to empathy. Empathy has the transformative power to remove bitterness from rage and to help us understand horrific crimes like rape and…

beautiful? In the novel, “The Bluest eye” written by Toni Morrison, she pens, “Beauty was not simply something to behold: it was something one could do” In other words, Morrison wanted to inform us that beauty is not what the media show us or some special characteristics or facial that distinctly make one superior to others. She wanted to stress that one does truly achieve true beauty until they appreciate and like who they are. In laymen terms “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” Racism is…

“The Bluest Eye” was the first novel she wrote while she was working in Howard University and caring for her two sons as a single mother. (“Toni Morrison Biography.”) The story was about two girls named Claudia and Frieda MacTeer residing in Lorain, Ohio with their…

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me” (Ayn Rand). For many years, women have been thrown around like useless trash. They were know for only being good at household chores, keeping up with the kids, or being an typical maid. The men and society had downgraded their self worth and made them believe they didn’t have any power. The women of the mid 1900s were convinced that were weak and dependent. Women did not have the courage to be more than that. Although, it…

The novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young African American girl in Ohio who faces great adversity as a result of her race, gender, and age. She wants nothing more than to have blue eyes, believing that they would make her beautiful and improve her quality of life. She lives in a small house with her mother, Pauline, her father, Cholly, and her brother, Sammy. In an excerpt titled “Battle Royal” from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, the narrator faces…