Toni Morrison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published in 1970. In the book's foreword, Morrison explains her reasons for writing the novel. ... In 1965 she started writing 'The Bluest Eye." ... In "The Bluest Eye," the adult Claudia narrator appears to fill the gap of Claudia's innocence about racial prejudice, which a young girl cannot explain. ...

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Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye is about the life of the Breedlove family who resides in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s. ... She wants the bluest eye. ... The name of the novel, "The Bluest Eye," is meant to get the reader thinking about how much value is placed on blue-eyed little girls. ... There are two major metaphors in The Bluest Eye, one of marigolds and one of dandelions. ... In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison tells the story of a little black girl who thinks that if she can live up to the image of the blue-eyed Shirley Temple and Dick and J...

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The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. ... In The Bluest Eye, Morrison thoroughly uses her previous experiences in aid to create the feeling of hardship and the melancholy tone of the novel. ... It wasn't long before Toni met Harold Morrison, a young architect, who also taught at Howard University. ... The Bluest Eye was Morrison's first novel. ... In 1996, Morrison received a Medal for Di...

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In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the chapters are separated by the evolutions of seasons. ... Memory plays a crucial role in the major themes of The Bluest Eye. ... Pecola provides an extended depiction through her ideals of the ways in which internalized white beauty standards deform the lives of blacks, especially black women, in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. ... Toni Morrison's The Blues Eye is composed of sections that are labeled by the seasons: autumn, winter, spring, and summer. ... Evidently we can conclude from the readings: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Ey...

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The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye tells the sad story of Pecola Breedlove, a poor prepubescent black girl, who wants to be loved and cared for by her family and society. ... She idolizes images of blond haired, blue-eyed white girls like Shirley Temple. ... Morrison makes strong social statements about race, beauty, and abandonment in our society through the sad, sometimes exaggerated story of Pecola Breedlove. Morrison has stated that the book is about one's dependency on the world for identification, self-value, and feelings of worth. ... The story is about th...

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Toni Morisson's novel The Bluest Eye is about the life of the Breedlove family who resides in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s. ... She wants the bluest eye. ... The narrative structure of The Bluest Eye is important in revealing just how pervasive and destructive social racism is. ... Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. ... The name of the novel, "The Bluest Eye," is meant to get the reader thinking about how much value is placed on blue-eyed little girls. ...

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Morrison provides readers with the context and history behind the Breedloves" misery and Pecola's obsessive desire to have the "bluest eyes". ... In Toni Morrison's book the Bluest Eye we will see how Cholly demonstrates "that disadvantage" that he goes through all his life and how because of that he is lead to being a cold person. ... They slid about furtively searching for shelter, while his body remained paralyzed. ... (Bluest Eye, 148) As you well know Cholly then left to go to Macon so he could find his father. ... (Bluest Eye, 123) Toni Morrison shows the pain an...

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The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, is a novel about sexual commencement and maltreatment. The book begins in Lorain, Ohio at the end of the Great Depression during a time when many people's lives were meeting ends. ... The author, Toni Morrison, made many implications towards sexual experiences. ... Another unique thing about this novel is the literary devices. Toni Morrison wrote this novel using recurring structures that really enhanced and improved the way the reader approached the information. ...

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Beauty plays a highly influential role through Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. ... In The Bluest Eye, Morrison refers to these traits of nature as "funk". ... The Bluest Eye examines the home life of these children in the stories as well. ... Later on in the book, Pauline is introduced to "physical beauty" something that is "Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought" (122). ... Pecola experiences rejection after rejection by others who care about their appearance and how close they come to this idealized standard of beauty. ...

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The Bluest Eye 1. The Bluest Eye is the title of the book. The author of the book is Toni Morrison. ... The ending of the book is satisfying. ... I do agree with Toni Morrison because the theme "Whiteness as the standard of beauty" is still here in today's day and age. ...

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Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is the story of young black girl growing up in a small town in Ohio, during the 1940's. ... This hatred and neglect of Pecola by her mother is evident in the scene that takes place in the opening chapter of the book, where Pecola is found to be "ministratin" by Claudia and Frieda. Pecola did not have a clue what was happening to her and the reason for this is obvious, her mother did not care enough about her to teach a basic life lesson. ... Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye gives the reader many shocking insights into the Black American family dur...

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Morrison is a Nobel peace prize award winning African American writer who wrote The Bluest Eye. The Bluest eye is the sadden tale of a young black girl in a black community. ... Instead of conventional chapters, The Bluest Eye is broken up into the four seasons. ... The research will focus on, in the The Bluest Eye, the themes of the white standard of beauty, rejection, and the skin tone hierarchy. ... (Morrison 19) That was an excerpt from the book The Bluest Eye and in that scene we see how Pecola adores the cup with the pretty little while girl on it. ...

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In "The Bluest Eye," by Toni Morrison, the reader is led to question if society actually does try to predict events by seasons. ... In the book, autumn is interpreted to represent the end of childhood. ... By including this scene in the 'spring' part of the book, Morrison is suggesting that there is a darker side to spring, thus contradicting society's status quo. Another reason that Morrison might have included this scene in 'spring' is to set a tone for what happens later in the book. ... But in the book, the season of summer is represented somewhat differently. ...

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Toni Morrison was born as Chloe Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, near Cleveland. ... In 1970, her first novel The Bluest Eye was published under the name of Toni Morrison. ... Besides being a popular novelist, Toni Morrison has won almost every major literary award and honor, including the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Chianti Ruffino Antico Fattore International Award in Literature, and the Nobel Prize. ... In the novel Sula, author Toni Morrison proves that love is not easy. ... Toni Morrison's Sula expresses death in this way, as a part of life. ...

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Toni Morrison is the author of seven, critically acclaimed, novels and a professor at Princeton University. ... While she worked full-time as an editor at Random House and raised two sons, she began writing her first novel, The Bluest Eye. ... As Sara Blackburn wrote in her review of Sula after the book's release in 1973, "Toni Morrison is someone who really knows how to clank a senten and her dialogue is so compressed and life-like it sizzles (Blackburn)." ... The power of love in Toni Morrison's Sula was manifested in relationships involving family, friendship and sex. ... Nel po...

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Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye provides insight into the injustices of racism and poverty in America in the mid-1900s through the perspective of nine-year-old Claudia and ten-year-old Frieda MacTeer. ... Several characters construct and perpetuate fantasies or beliefs about transcending their circumstances. ... The Bluest Eye contains elements of ironic tragedy. ... In the last section of the book titled, "Summer", Pecola is raped and impregnated by her father resulting in further exclusion for Pecola. ... In The Bluest Eye the morals the adults of the neighbourhood follow...

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Toni Morrison's book, "The Bluest Eye," is not a book for the lighthearted. The book contains the emotions of sadness, depression, yearning, anger, and hatred of one's own body. ... Her obsession with obtaining blues eye may have stemmed from the violence she was forced to witness growing up. ... Sometimes youngsters will begin talking about strange fears and ideas. ... In the end, it was Toni Morrison's goal was to expose the reader to the truth behind society and the connection it has with her characters. ...

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There is no way I would be able to compare the lives of Toni Morrison and Emily Dickinson. ... When Emily had a sizable collection of poems, she sought out somebody for advice about anonymous publication. ... Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931 and spent the first years of her life in Ohio. ... Her 1970 novel The Bluest Eye was followed by Sula in 1974, which secured Morrison a nomination for the National Book Award. In 1977, Morrison won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her book Song of Solomon. ...

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In the novel "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, Pecola Breedlove must learn what it is like to deal with racism (man versus man conflict). ... All that Cholly could think about was how " he wanted to fu-- her tenderly." ... The conflicts through out the book are never really successfully solved by one main resolution. ...

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Most, if not all authors tend to write about a real life happening. ... "The book that helped me to begin to believe in my own work was Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. ... Dorothy Allison started publishing her work in 1983 with a book of poems called The Women Who Hate Me. She went on to write the book of stories called Trash in 1988, followed by her very first novel in 1992, Bastard out of Carolina. ... "You an't got no business thinking about guns- (literature and society 217). ...

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Once a person feels insecure about themselves than he or she tries to make them feel better by attacking someone else. ... If this is the case, she may start to develop a prejudice towards men because it may make her feel better about herself. ... The book also mentions that prejudice may come from the idea that it might promote self interest because people support what brings them pleasure and what does not. The ultimate root of prejudice however, the book states is to defend our social position and self-esteem. ... In the other novel we read, The Bluest Eye, the little black girl wishes ...

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