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Similarly, Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye…

without vision you can't see the beautiful things around you. But our eyes isn't the only way to see things, I think that we can use our imagination to see the things around us and a lot of us don’t realize that. In Emily Dickinson's poems, “We grow accustomed to the dark” and “Before I got my eye put out” she writes about how not having vision isn’t a bad thing, unless you have your imagination. In the poem, “Before I got my eye put out” Dickinson writes about if she loses her sight it would…

Our eyes work like a camera. Just like a camera lens focuses our cornea focuses light on the membrane called the retina. The cornea is transparent. It's found in the front of the eye and it helps focus light. Behind the pupil is a colorless, see threw structure called the crystalline lens. A clear fluid called the aqueous humor fills between the cornea and iris. The cornea focuses most of the light and then it goes through the lens. Behind the cornea is a colored, ring shaped membrane called…

our eyes, senses and brain interpretation. An eight-week course scratches the surface of the abundant knowledge there is to be had. This essay will answer some of the behaviors in which vision works and how it affects many areas of our daily lives. 1. Provide an explanation of how our eyes take in visual information and how mind interprets, processes and remembers that data. Many variables affect what the eye sees, the brain interprets and what is remembered. Part of the anatomy of the eye…

Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, is about the Problem of middle-class people ideas of beauty on a female of an African American girls. Her novel came about after Morrison talked with someone who wanted to have blue eyes, the novel shows a girl, Pecola Breedlove, who wanted love and to be taken into a world that doesn’t care about people of her race. Author Shelley Wong’s in her Article Transgression as Poesis in The Bluest Eye talks about the different ways in which Morrison wrote her novels…

The Bluest Eye is a long poetic journey of broken spirits. The setting of this novel takes place in a time where black and white people recently began to reside amongst one another in the 1940s. Throughout this heartrending story, ideas of racism, irretrievable confidence, and mere self-pity loom in this interracial community; however, one can raise the question, if there is not any direct oppression of black people by the white people, how does racism function in The Bluest Eye? The…

Throughout The Bluest Eye, “Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured” (page 20). The characters live in an the mid-1900s where only girls with blonde-hair, blue-eyes, and white skin are considered beautiful. Throughout The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison explains that beauty is on the inside. In the novel, the influence of popular media is unveiled through the effect…

linking different generations is beauty. Everyone strives to be beautiful, older people strive to look younger and teenagers/young girls strive to look older, it is a vicious cycle. In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, young Pecola Breedlove strives to become what she was told is beauty, white skin and blue eyes. In the 1940’s and today, young girls are expected to aspire to be beautiful so much they change their appearance even if it can lead to self destruction. Throughout history, there have…

The Bluest Eye and why it needed to be so messed up Toni Morrison is known for her unique style of writing. Her raw and unforgiving style lends itself to speaking about topics that are hard to understand the deep nature of. She has a way of speaking to an audience that few other authors have. In The Bluest Eye she uses this style of writing to convey the harsh reality faced by black girls in the 1940s. Pecola in particular has a miserable life which can only be fully understood through…

Jackie Lenane American Lit. Dr. Davis 04/28/16 The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, is a story of three young African American girls, Pecola Breedlove and Claudia MacTeer, who struggle against a culture that defines them as ugly and/or invisible. In a world where white, blond-haired, blue-eyed females are the ideal, the girls are isolated. The main character in the book, Pecola, desperately wants to be accepted in society and therefore becomes obsessive about obtaining this…