Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye Essay

People are convinced that beauty is an ideal expectation of how people are required to be viewed in order to fit in society. Pecola feels that she is not beautiful due to the fact that society has a very specific way to define beauty. Pecola is having a hard time to survive because she is put down by all the stereotypes and judgements about her and her ethnic group. At such a young age, being only 11 years old Pecola is already living a misery life because she comes from a poor unhealthy family,…

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 novels “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, “Brown Girl, Brownstones” by Paule Marshall and “Citizen An American Lyric” by Claudia all are different books that tell different stories and written by different people, but one thing all 3 of these book share in common is a very old but important social issue which is Race and Racism. The way these authors use their topics as a subdivision of the theme or a social issue so that their main point becomes more clear and understandable is very…

In the theme of The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison illustrates the destructive nature of whiteness being a scale for acceptance through certain black characters of this novel. The characters that display this destruction are Pecola Breedlove, Geraldine, and Pauline Breedlove. Pecola Breedlove desperately searches for ways of obtaining blue eyes because she believes it is the only way of receiving love and acceptance from her mother and community. Geraldine uses whiteness as a scale of accepting…

How do the poets effectively explore a young person's need to belong? In the poem Heidi with blue hair (1980) a young girl decides to dyed her hair blue and for this she is sent home. The headmistress is arguing with her that blue is not a school color, even though there was no rule against it she was punished. Although the situation her father stands up and defends her child. Her father does not want to mention her mother's death but somehow they believe that the rebellious attitude is due to…

When I hear Toni Morrison, I think of an author whose books involves people who have serious issues because of what I thought after reading The Bluest Eye last year. Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye have many similarities. For example, the books are focusing the lives of an African American, Pecola and Milkman. In the books, sex is described in a disgusting and weird way. By this I mean, Morrison writes the parents of the main characters having sex in an unusual way involving mostly foreplay…

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…

In the novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison, the author details the tragic story of a young African American girl named Pecola Breedlove, who is exposed to bias social constructs that results in her internalizing high levels of racist ideologies. The novel illustrates the controversy of the perpetration of Eurocentric beauty standards and how it affects the black community, specifically the children within it. Pecola is surrounded around the notion that white standards are favored…

The Bluest Eye is a novel by Toni Morrison about a girl named Pecola. Pecola is a daughter of Cholly and Polly Breedlove. “Love is never better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe”. Cholly is a free man, a husband, and a father of three children. He symbolizes a lover who wants nothing but for his children to feel at ease. Polly is a wife and a mother to Pecola…

In The Bluest Eye, Morrison writes about how black individuals in a color-prejudiced society are negatively influenced by the inferiority imposed on them by white individuals, especially focusing on how this inferiority affects a young black girl named Pecola. Upon analyzing the novel, it is evident that the prejudiced social dynamics within the society result in the worthlessness of black individuals being determined by white individuals who claim to be superior due to their white skin color.…