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. For one family in particular, The Breedloves, it was a time of despair. Members of the Breedlove family included: Pecola, a neglected child, Pauline, an abused mother, and Cholly, a rootless man. Throughout ... abused so much sexually and emotionally, Pecola eventually ends up going insane and believing that she now has the bluest eyes and everyone is jealous of her. The novel ends w...

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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. Some important facts that influence the story is that, the town where the story takes place is where Morrison grew up as a little girl. Also, the time that the story takes place (1941) is the same time Morrison would be nine years old. The same age as the narrator of the story (Claudia MacTeer). The title of the ... life. He rapes Pecola and she gets pregnant with his baby. Frieda is Claudia"s ten-year-old sister. She is experienced about the adult world and is sometimes braver than Claudia. Pol...

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In this section of the book, Toni Morrison tackled an issue black people have been facing for years- light skin verses dark skin. This division within the community has been a long lasting problem ever since slavery was "abolished". Maureen Peale, the high yellow, rich black girl who went to the local school with Claudia, Frieda and Pecola is a prime example that blacks have come to acknowledge. It seems as if black people of lighter skin have better lives- just like the age old stereotype of blondes having more fun than darker haired females. Well maybe it is better to be lighter because afte...

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... and Frieda MacTeer, Morrison's goes through four seasons and traces the Pecola's descent into madness. Morrison provides readers with the context and history behind the Breedloves" misery and Pecola's obsessive desire to have the "bluest eyes". Throughout time, black males have always been at a disadvantage in whatever they wanted to do. In Toni Morrison's book the Bluest Eye we will see how Cholly demonstrates "that disadvantage" that he ... shame. "There was no place for Cholly's eyes to go. They slid about furtively searching for shelter, while his body remained paralyzed. The flashl...

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... Phyllis R. Klotman (Metzger 413). Racism is an everyday issue for Pecola. She faces the problem from whites, and blacks as well. Pecola assumes that by having blue eyes she will be accepted in society. "She wants the bluest of the blue, the bluest eyes" (McEwen 1). The Bluest Eye consist of four section that make up the novel. These sections are: ""Autumn," "Winter," "Spring," and "Summer"" (Magill ... 243). Claudia MacTeer, the nine year old narrator, starts the story off by taking a chilly look at her lifestyle and begins to concentrate ... growing up, of growing up young and black an...

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... was made public, her mother and Pecola move to the edge of town. The three prostitutes, Frieda and Claudia have cared for Pecola regardless of her background or physical appearance. In The Bluest Eye love is measured by physical appearance. The first example of love being measure by the standard of beauty is the story of Dick, Jane and the happy family. White was considered beautiful, something Pecola ... was not. The story of Dick and Jane were used to portray the perfect imagine of the happy American family. An example is the way in which the image of white ... was a painful love that ...

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... many different ways. Some say it is all in one's body. Some say it is the intelligence of a person. Some say "beauty is in the eyes." In the novel The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, beauty is in the eyes, social class, and skin color. The thought of beauty surrounds and consumes the characters, especially Pecola Breedlove. Pecola chooses to hide from her disabling life behind her clouded dream ... of possessing the ever so cherished "bluest of eyes". The Breedlove's constant bickering and ever growing poverty contributes to ... ...

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