... is envious of her new blue eyes. In the final section of the novel, Claudia remembers seeing Pecola searching the garbage after the baby was born prematurely and died and she became insane. In "The Bluest Eye," Morrison shifts to varied narrative situations, which are: Claudia the first-person retrospective narrator and Claudia the first-person experiencing narrator. By using this technique, Morrison shows the reader that Claudia is retelling her own story ... , the characters in "The Bluest Eye" are shown in the setting of a society which is constantly weighed down by the heritage of sl...

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... parallel meanings of these settings when they are thought of literally and also collectively with the thoughts of memories. In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the chapters are separated by the evolutions of seasons. These conjugate the moods that are brought about within the text of the characters, but a certain irony as well. John Kotre speaks of the remembrance of people's lives and what they remember best. His argument is that we ... integrate ourselves into a future of our own devising or does it chain us to an unchangeable past? Morrison's use of the natural cycle of seasons answer...

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... depressed and have no sense of their worth as a human being. Morrison clearly portrays whiteness as a standard of beauty for the characters in her novel, while the outlier is Claudia MacTeer who constantly subverts this idea. Toni Morrison's portrayal of whiteness as the standard of beauty is readily apparent throughout The Bluest Eye. Many of the characters in the novel are described in a physical manner that emphasizes their "unattractive" ... and Frieda, Mr. Henry compares them to beautiful white celebrities of the time. While there were black movie stars at the time, he chose to use ...

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... "The Bluest Eye," by Toni Morrison, the reader is led to question if society actually does try to predict events by seasons. Through placing different events in different seasons, especially summer, Morrison leads you to expect the unexpected, and teaches you to read without letting your beliefs take charge. In the book, autumn is interpreted to represent the end of childhood. Many people confuse the ending of childhood and the beginning ... an illusion of reality. Before meeting Geraldine, Pecola had walked through the house and was fascinated by its beauty. However, once she met Gerald...

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• Grade Level: High School