The Bluest Eye

throughout history and in present day America, are to look pretty and take care of the children. In “The Bluest Eyes”, Morrison uses sensory language to show a young girl’s disgust and confusion towards the stereotypical baby doll given to her. The author uses sensory language to show a vivid picture of how the girl truly sees the doll. The young girl is, “secretly frightened” by the “round moronic eyes, the pancake face, and the orange worms hair.” The authors visual description of the doll…

Name: Samuel Huang Major Works Data Sheet This form must be typed. Title of the Work: The Bluest Eye Author: Toni Morrison Date of Publication: 1970 (2007) Genre: Novel Historical information about the Setting: The novel takes place in Ohio after the Great Depression in the United States. There is still racial discrimination going on around this time and blacks still have fewer opportunities than whites. The fewer opportunities led to an economic insecurity for the blacks, which led to…

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye explains the idea of racial self-loathing through the perspective of several characters. Each of these characters experience a form of racism and feeling less valuable than white people; how the characters are presented at the end of the novel result from this experience. Morrison also includes the character’s reactions, and how they handle the situation they’re in. Characters that are more impacted by racism, like Mrs. Breedlove and Pecola, develop a hatred for…

Light skin, silky corn yellow hair, and clear crisp blue eyes. Who is to say this is what defines beauty. The Bluest Eye a novel by Toni Morrison is about a little eleven years old girl named Pecola Breedlove, in the 1930’s, her family and her two friends Frieda and Claudia who are sisters. Pecola believes she is ugly, and is regarded by many of the characters as such; but she believes that if she were to have a pair of blue eyes she will become beautiful, and in turn the ones around her would…

Stephanie Tsank ENGL: 1200 28 April, 2017 The Bluest Eye and Glass Menagerie: The Impacts Race and Disability had on Beauty Standards The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison in 1970 and The Glass Menagerie, written by Tennessee Williams in 1944, have become staples in American literature. Although written in different time periods, both stories reflect the same social norms and beauty standards that are too often thrust upon women of the same decade. The Bluest Eye and The Glass Menagerie…

Scott Fitzgerald, and The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, a very similar message about society develops throughout the lives of the characters. Both of the main characters in these books, struggle with self perception and identity because of societal standards. Gatsby and Pecola differ vastly in terms of social status, but they both face obstacles with their self perception and desire for acceptance that makes them similar in many ways. The Great Gatsby and The Bluest Eye portray how society…

The Bluest Eye is written by Toni Morrison, in 1970. This book aimed toward exposing the destructive idea that black skin, and black culture were inherently ugly. Also, it is about how black community hates itself simply for not being white. Morrison starts this novel with Dick and Jane text. Dick Jane text often represent basal reader. The Dick and Jane represented white wealth and white beauty. In this book, the Dick and Jane are representations of the development of the black lives. Also,…

one opinion there is always bound to be another with strong refutations opposing the will of the other. Toni Morrison has produced a novel that hinges on harsh reality and unsubtle triggers that divide at the questions of educational value. The Bluest Eye due to its abusive nature should not be taught in high school classrooms. As, it displays extreme vulgarity, cases of abuse, and violence. The students may or may not relate to Pecola, however, the Morrison novel presents too many challenges to…

Parents are the first role models that children are exposed too, making them influential in the growth of a child. The diverse group of parents in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, demonstrate a variety of parenting styles, and how they affect children. The book is set in 1940’s America, a time where black people weren’t fully accepted by society. Here readers are introduced to the breedlove family, a black family that is outcast from society. Each girl perceives the world differently as each has…

In the bluest eye a little girl receives a doll for Christmas that she doesn’t want. Throughout the story she complains about the expectations placed on her and rebels by treating the doll and others differently than the way people expect her to. Toni Morrison uses the Christmas gift, the doll, to highlight what she perceives to be proof that gender is socially constructed and is used to control women. When the little girl receives the doll for Christmas she is unsure how to act towards it and…