... this battle of self-hatred by obtaining blue eyes, but not just any blue. She wants the bluest eye. Morrison is able to use her critical eye to reveal to the reader the evil that is caused by a society that is indoctrinated by the inherent goodness and beauty of whiteness and the ugliness of blackness. She uses many different writing tools to depict how "white" beliefs have ... for how long white ideas of family and home have been forced into black culture. Instead of conventional chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. This type...

• Word Count: 609
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... is also narrated by a nine-year-old black girl, which is how old Morrison would've been in 1941, the year the novel takes place. Furthermore, Morrison's family struggled financially during the Great Depression, similarly to the MacTeer family in the novel. Through "The Bluest Eye", Morrison makes a statement about how vulnerable a young black girl, such as herself, is as she is exposed to ... that were stimulating. Morrison thought no one would realize that it wasn't always beautiful, how hurtful racism is. One reason why she wrote "The Bluest Eye" is because someone would actually be...

• Word Count: 1083
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... . Morrison's argument is how society can greatly influence a person and how firmly a societies views and ideas can be almost forced on that person. The ideas and views present in The Bluest Eye are related to beauty and what makes one beautiful. The tragedy of Pecola Breedlove beautifully illustrates how this facade of beauty can dishevel one's life until finally leading one to madness. Thus, Morrison ... how those views and ideas can change a persons life forever. In the opening of The Bluest Eye, the passage from the Dick and Jane story, becomes a representation of an ideal white perso...

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... The Bluest Eye was a book about the insensitive realities of society and the standards of beauty that society forces people to live up to. Pecola, a little black girl, who just wants to be pretty and fit into society thinks that blue eyes would change the way people looked at her, or didn't look at her, because of the white ... why Pecola's baby did not live, it was not meant for her to have her father's baby. Morrison used many metaphors like this one through out the book. Pecola is a girl who hates her self. She finds no solace in her family, her community rejects her. She views herse...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

An effective use of literary devices in a novel is something that so called "separates the men from the boys". Literary devices help communicate a better understanding of the theme or themes of the story. There are many types of literary devices like foreshadowing, symbolism, point of view, metaphor, and simile. The two that Morrison uses the most effectively are point of view and symbolism. Point of view can be a very effective tool in writing a story. Picking the right point of view is not that simple, so some writers like Morrison uses more than one. She uses both the 1st person and the 3r...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Tar Baby, reveal a unity and a consistency in her vision of the human condition. One particular preoccupation is with the effect of the community on the individual's achievement and retention of an integrated acceptable self. In treating this subject she draws recurrently on myth and legend for story pattern and characters, returning repeatedly to the theory of ... quest as a motivating and organizing device. The impact of the community on the individual's quest for self is one of the particular problems of Black women, and the laughter ...

• Word Count: 290
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate