The Bluest Eye Essay

a short story about a black girl who longed to have blue eyes. In contemporary woman novelists of America, Toni Morrison is the rare one who thinks highly of nature in her works. Natural imagery in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye compares women destiny with nature, and uncovers the double pressures from white culture and men suffered by Negro women, criticizing ruling logic which gives oppression to Negro women and nature. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison offers a profound critique of codified and…

Anna Quindlen’s “Black and Blue” clearly shows readers the feeling of abuse, and how it affects people. This story is about Fran Benedetto, a young woman married to her abusive husband, Bobby where they live together in New York City. Every day she would falsely smile through all the pain. One day, she finally decides to run away with her young son, Robert. Soon enough, she finally reaches Florida; where kind people help her overcome her past life of abuse. She changes her name to Elizabeth…

white and black. In actuality, her understanding is through the Shirley Temple doll she admires, the blue eyes she requires, and the individuals who consistently insult her. Pecola’s admiration toward Shirley Temple is a defining factor in her perception of whites…

years or goes on a journey of self-discovery in which the character (usually the protagonist) will gain personal growth as the novel progresses. This kind of novel is usually centered on a child protagonist like in The House on Mango Street or The Bluest Eyes. A Katherine Bell puts it in her dissertation; the bildungsroman is “often referred to as a novel of education” and began in the seventeenth century “as a literary offshoot of educational theory” (Bell 1). The bildungsroman tells a story of…

last few weeks reading Toni Morrison's novel " The Bluest Eye," I have noticed how the society had a major impact on the character's daily lives. The community had more of a bigger impact on Pecola Breedlove's life. The community where Pecola lived in, which were mostly African-American did not care for Pecola and that caused for her downfall in the end. People in the community think there is only one type of beauty which is having "pale skin, blue eyes" . Pecola most certainly does not fit that…

The “Bluest Eye” setting is in the period of great depression (1941) and partially it is an autobiography, as it is set in the town where Morrison grew up. What moved her towards writing the book was a conversation she had with a little girl who wanted to have blue eyes. She began writing it in 1962, when the Black is Beautiful movement was working to reclaim African-American beauty. (SparkNotes) Morrison’s goal when writing the “Bluest Eye” was to share something with us, something that is not…

Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye, she conveys an intense insight on the reality of the effects of white beauty on the black community. The idea that Eurocentric features are the epitome of beauty thrive vigorously. This idea distorts the lives of many black women and children and harshly convinces them to believe that whiteness is superior.The novel focuses on the life of a young black girl named Pecola Breedlove who is struggling with racial insecurities and the obsessive want for blue eyes.…

Surviving childhood sexual abuse affects the rest of your life. Toni Morrison portrays different incidents of sexual child abuse, in the novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Children do not understand what goes on if they are inappropriately touched or raped, but it literally haunts them for the rest of their life. There are several different kinds of sexual child abuse and Morrisons shows three types; those types are intrafamilial, non-family and forced. Pecola experiences intrafamilial abuse…

Toni Morrison are some of the renowned writers who got the opportunity to get an education and mainly focused on African American equality in depth. Though their approaches differ, they particularly address similar issues. To start with, in “The Bluest Eye” Toni Morrison explores the aspects of the identity of women of African American descent. She explores the challenges of growing up in a society that equates beauty with blue-eyed whiteness. Morrison especially points out how the media, adult…

Rags or Riches Two different cultures who are on the chase for self-righteousness and conformity, African American and Latino/Hispanic’s have suffered throughout history trying to find their place in American culture. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Richard Rodriguez in his narrative Hunger of Memory describe the hardships they undergo to assimilate and conform. Although a common theme of self-loathing is seen throughout both of the text, the road to assimilation and conformity is…