Morrison is a Nobel peace prize award winning African American writer who wrote The Bluest Eye. ... Instead of conventional chapters, The Bluest Eye is broken up into the four seasons. ... The novel says that it is due primarily to her injured foot that she felt a sense of separateness and unworthiness and also why she "never felt at home anywhere, or that she belonged anyplace- (Morrison, 111) This feeling was intensified by her experiences of exclusion and loneliness after moving up north. ...

• Word Count: 2499
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

Separate from any established churches, The Clearing provided a place where the community could gather and reclaim themselves- a place where they could reclaim God, outside of any white institutions. ... The Clearing allowed " freed blacks to set up their own type of worship services separate from white society and the organized white Christian church .Significantly, the leader of this group is Baby Suggs, who stands in contrast to the powerful men who head the larger white church. ...

• Word Count: 3712
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

Separate from any established churches, The Clearing provided a place where the community could gather and reclaim themselves- a place where they could reclaim God, outside of any white institutions. ... The Clearing allowed " freed blacks to set up their own type of worship services separate from white society and the organized white Christian church .Significantly, the leader of this group is Baby Suggs, who stands in contrast to the powerful men who head the larger white church. ...

• Word Count: 3715
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

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. Living in Lorain, Ohio, with their parents, the MacTeers take in a young girl as a resident named Pecola. Pecola is a young black girl who throughout the story is critiqued, shamed, and virtually destroyed due to the corrupt morals of her society. Morrison describes how African-American girls during this time period were encouraged to aspire to be white. All of the female African-Americ...

• Word Count: 3660
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography