Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye Essay

The Bluest Eye was published in 1970 and was the first book that Toni Morrison published. The genre of The Bluest Eye is African American literature and the intended audience for this book is mostly for adolescent and adults. Now the author Toni Morrison was born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio and she was born with the name of Chloe Anthony Wofford. Toni Morrison’s father George Wofford had a job as a welder and had side jobs while her mother Ramah, was a domestic worker. She had three siblings and was the second oldest of the four children. Toni was an American novelist, editor, and a Professor at Princetown University . She is mostly known for her epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. The Bluest Eye is…

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…

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…

Toni Morrison´s first novel successfully portrayed the life of young girls from Afro-American families, who are facing racism, violence while-, they are searching for an identity in the primarily white world. Morrison touched many points concerning racial and social problems that were on the stake during the period after the Great Depression and maybe could even have some meaning nowadays. It is possible for young girls to be able of self-love and confidence-, even when they are exposed every…

I discovered Toni Morrison about a year ago, and by only reading one of her novels I was taken away by the beauty of her craftly word and the deapth of her thought. I promised myself not to stop until I read all of her work. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is the first novel, published in 1970. The Nobel laureate’s winner sets a high bar, which she continues to raise with every new literary masterpiece. The Bluest Eye incorporates a lot of characteristics of her future novels, as well as it…

not encounter a renewal but deterioration. While remaining unfocused, Morrison’s music moves from the mourner’s bench to a ‘jook’ joint and then to an uptown club in the city. But her central focus is the Black community. The Bluest Eye presents the fundamental pattern of Morrison’s early novels: an isolated figure, cut off from the community, undergoes a harrowing experience, an ontologically threatening encounter with what is variously described as the unspeakable, the otherworldly, the…

Toni Morrison is considered as one of the prominent writers in African-American history. In 1993, Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature and she became the eighth woman and the first African-American to win the prize. Her novels furnish themselves to feminist interpretation because they challenge the cultural norms of class, gender and race. In her novels, Beloved bagged Pulitzer Prize award for Fiction in 1988 and remains one of the most well-known and critically-acclaimed works. Toni…

reveal their pains as a black. The 1993 Nobel Literature Laureate, Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. She writes for black women to reveal the pains of Afro-American woman as a black and female. Her works challenge the stereotypes present in writings by and about black women. She projects racism and gender discrimination in her novels. Feminism in Toni Morrison’s novels is grounded upon “the structure of a Culture…which defines women, as worthless…

In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Cholly, driven by multiple factors, rapes his daughter, and this scene is included for a certain purpose, as well. Cholly, the father, engages in nonconsensual intercourse with his daughter because of his alcoholic stupor and sense of freedom. Cholly is alcoholic because of the emptiness that cannot be filled with anything drink, seen when he describes, “Nothing, nothing, interested him now. Not himself, not other people. Only in drink was there some break,…

“But Their Ugliness Was Unique”: An African American Literary Examination of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye Does being ugly refer to the physical aspects of a person, the way they think, the color of their skin, or the way in which one is raised? Toni Morrison, an African American novelist, originally named Chloe Anthony Wofford, interprets and examines the “black experience” throughout her many novels (http://www.britannica.com/Toni-Morrison). The Bluest Eye, being one of them, is a remarkable…