Introduction The bluest eye is not just a story created by the author, but a series of very painful impressions. Reading the book is a cry for remedy (Ruby 20). However, Morrison puts across issues which are painful whilst trying to show the hope as well as encouragement that is below the surface...
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In my essay I will compare and contrast the characters from two different books: one is The Bluest Eye written by Tony Morrison and the other is Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The two characters are tragic ones and their tragedies are based on their delusions and misunderstanding their roles...
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Misdirection of Anger "Anger is better [than shame]. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality of presence. An awareness of worth. "(50) This is how many of the blacks in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye felt. They faked love when they felt powerless to hate, and destroyed what love they...
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A Search For A Self Finding a self-identity is often a sign of maturing and growing up. This becomes the main issue in Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eyes. Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, and Pauline Breedlove are such characters that search for their identity through others that has...
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African- American folklore is arguably the basis for most African- American literature. In a country where as late as the 1860's there were laws prohibiting the teaching of slaves, it was necessary for the oral tradition to carry the values the group considered significant. Transition by the word...
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The Bluest Eye The major characters in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison were Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, Claudia MacTeer, and Frieda MacTeer. Pecola Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around whom the story revolves. Her innermost desire is to have the "bluest" eyes so that others...
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" The Bluest Eye Everywhere we go there are going to be stereotypes that can affect us in our daily lives. Even stereotypes from years ago are still sometimes present today. For years Caucasian blue-eyed dolls was considered the best and most perfect gift for every little girl. For this time...
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Toni Morrison's novel "The Bluest Eye", is a very important novel in literature, because of the many boundaries that were crosses and the painful, serious topics that were brought into light, including racism, gender issues, Black female Subjectivity, and child abuse of many forms. This set of...
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Self-hatred in the Bluest Eye After reading the Bluest Eye, the readers will be impressed by the atmosphere of depression and anxiety. One main reason for that is the self-hatred in the story, which is the black people's common psychological condition. Almost each black people in the story have...
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In search of Identity Most of African-American literature appears in the American canon as a literature of revolution and protest against a "white" world of supremacy. Yet many African-American authors have explored, analyzed and criticized "white" supremacy while, at the same time, exploring its...
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Toni Morrison was born February 18, 1931 and is one of the most prominent authors in world literature, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 for her collected works. She was born Chloe Anthony Wofford and was the second of four children in a working-class American family. In 1949...
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Beauty and The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye contributes to the study of the American novel by bringing to light an unflattering side of American history. The story of a young black girl named Pecola, growing up in Lorain, Ohio in 1941 clearly illustrates the fact that the...
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Beauty in the American culture has been transformed so many times most people do not even know what real beauty is. Someone can see a woman posing on a billboard in New York City and believe that she is beautiful, but who decided who and what can be beautiful. The way our culture is American...
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In Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" the reader better understands how young black girls were treated in the 1940's through the character Pecola. Pecola is one of the main characters and throughout the story all she wants is to get acceptance from the society. Her dream is to have the bluest eyes...
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Mr. Henry moves into Claudia and Frieda's house. One day, the girls come home and when they walk in Mr. Henry greets them. He flatters them by telling them they look just like Greta Garbo and Ginger Rogers, two white American female actresses. These two actresses represented American society's...
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The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison Compare and contrast Claudia and Pecola in terms of their ability to fight injustice. How does this ability affect them later in the novel? It is not hard to notice the contrast between Claudia’s method to fight injustice and Pecola’s method. Claudia is a fighter...
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The extract from the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison outlines the casualties that an African-American family faces from a young girl’s perspective. The author effectively uses the point of view of a young girl to instigate both a sympathetic and empathetic response from the reader. The transition of...
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The Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison Summary and Analysis of prologue and Autumn The Bluest Eye opens with two short untitled and unnumbered sections. The first section is a version of the classic Dick and Jane stories found in grade school reading primers. There is a pretty house, Mother, Father, Dick...
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Question 2: Discuss Claudia’s reactions to representations of beauty in her culture. To what extent does she rebel against what the dominant culture regards as beautiful? To what degree is she complicit in the social prejudices and prejudgments that she grows up with? Claudia shows clear signs of...
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‘The Bluest Eye’ by Toni Morrison is a book about finding and accepting your true beauty. It is a novel that states; if we try and see through a different perspective, we might actually be able to find that we have the strength to accomplish whatever we want. The Breedlove’s- a poor, black family-...
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