... , by picking up a handkerchief that he dropped, Pierre sneered at him and told him "Do me a favor, if you will. Drop it in the nearest campfire." (Fuller 318). In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison discusses the hardships of a little Black girl, named Pecola. Morrison uses the characters of the novel to show how the slavery-based racism and self-loathing affect the ... of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment."(204). Morrison expresses how Pecola's futile longing for the "bluest eyes" eventually drives her to madness as sh...

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