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In the book The Bluest Eye the main focus is not only the main character Pecola Breedlove, it’s the effect the white beauty standard has on not only Pecola but the narrator Claudia Macteer. Morrison strongly emphasises the beauty standard often within the book, even with a lack of introduced white characters. This beauty standard has affected the black children in the story, Pecola mainly, extremely negatively. In fact it has negatively affected the black community as a whole negatively. The…

The Eye of Providence, also known as the all-seeing eye of God, represents how God watches over humanity, and is a symbol that is typically considered a sign of God's love and care; however, it also has a much more sinister connotation due to its relation to surveillance. The Eye of Providence is shown hovering over an unfinished pyramid on the American dollar bill, and while many conspirators believe the Eye is used to show the United States watching over and protecting its citizens, it also…

Eye Contact: The Power of The Gaze Whilst engaging in social communication, whether verbal or non-verbal, eyes play a crucial role in expressing and identifying certain focus points and attention cues among humans. Direct and prolonged eye contact is more common during communication in European American and Arab cultures, while Latin American, Japanese, and African cultures perceive direct eye contact as an insult (Weiten, 2012). This research paper will entail research wholly from American and…

“The Bluest Eyes”, written by Toni Morrison, is a novel about young African American girls as they struggle with self identification and self love. This story talks about their constant battles with society's standards, and how they must overcome different forms of adversity. Throughout the novel there is the constant theme of beauty, and how beauty plays a major role on the lives of those young girls. Beauty, and its many different effects on people's’ lives can be seen through literary…

sadly never made it to watch that day come in 1964 when segregation in all states became illegal. Yes, segregation is illegal and has been for over fifty years, but that still didn’t change the way people looked, treated, or thought of us. The Bluest Eye was nothing but the truth about how African American women were treated back then, and the novel was able to present three important themes: appearance, race, and…

firsthand, brings to light the struggle African Americans face daily to overcome these systematic barriers in her works. Through symbolism and contrasting perspectives that follow eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove’s desperate pursuit of blue eyes, Morrison’s The Bluest Eye analyzes the way in which race affects social status and calls for action against white superiority in society. By demonstrating the decline in Pecola’s mental state, Morrison…

for the reader to connect with her work. In The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison uses description to make comparisons about beauty. In Recitatif Morrison uses details to describe Twyla and Roberta’s life. She uses detail to portray to her readers the hardship and struggles each and everyone of her characters face throughout the story. This use of description draws the reader in and makes them feel like they are part of the experience. The Bluest Eye is a novel about a young girl coming of age…

The impact of the use of contact lenses and glasses on eye Background : The contact lenses and glasses of modern techniques that help to improve the range of visions. But these techniques are not without side effects and multiple damage. The problem of the study: that the use of lenses and glasses may lead to various health damage such as: Corneal scars , redness , itching and others. The aim of study is to describe the resulting from the use of contact lenses and glasses among students…

appearance. They don 't feel that they are as beautiful as the women on TV and magazines. The media is mentally brainwashing American females that they are not thin enough, or have blonde hair and blue eyes. This causes women to have hatred against the perfect ideal females. In Toni Morrison 's novel The Bluest Eye two of her fundamental characters, Claudia and Pecola show hate toward others, and themselves since they are not as beautiful as the superior females. “It had begun with Christmas and…

With the evident aspects of beauty expressed within the novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and its transformation within societal perception, it is apparent that black women have been seen as infinitesimal and wholly “invisible” in the eyes of society. Written in the late 60s, The Bluest Eye takes a sentiment into the lives of young black girls and how society’s perception can create devastating impressions on how they see themselves as well as the world itself. Morrison successfully creates…