... their heritage and most importantly, place in society. She does an excellent job of pairing the challenges her family has faced being African Americans growing up during the Great Depression with essential life-lessons that are important for every person to understand. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison thoroughly uses her previous experiences in aid to create the feeling of hardship and the melancholy ... , New York and began to work as an editor for Random House, which gave her free time in the evenings to raise her two small children as well as write novels. She moved to New York City where ...

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