... Mary Jane" (Morrison 50). This quote shows one of the many patterns Morrison uses to brilliantly bring us closer to the world of Pecola Breedlove: beauty. Through two of the novel's main characters, Pecola and Claudia Macteer, we see their world and time through that main pattern of beauty and it's counterpoint ugly. In The Bluest Eye beauty/ugly constantly shows up through both internal thoughts ... and narration or spoken through conversations. The idea of beauty can turn someone's life upside down and in the end lead him or her to madness. Thus, Morrison is trying to impress upon her...

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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 is a very dark skinned black girl and ... family and doting over their blond, blue-eyed little girl, while at the same time completely ignoring her own little girl. After being raped and impregnated by her father she is asked to leave school. The child is stillborn and Pecola goes insane withdrawing into a fantasy world where she has the bluest eyes of all. Morrison makes strong social statements about race, ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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 is a very dark skinned black girl and ... family and doting over their blond, blue-eyed little girl, while at the same time completely ignoring her own little girl. After being raped and impregnated by her father she is asked to leave school. The child is stillborn and Pecola goes insane withdrawing into a fantasy world where she has the bluest eyes of all. Morrison makes strong social statements about race,...

• Word Count: 1291
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... 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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... settings when they are thought of literally and also collectively with the thoughts of memories. In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the chapters are separated by the evolutions of seasons. These conjugate the moods that are brought about within the text of the characters, but a certain irony as well. John Kotre speaks of the remembrance of people's lives and what they remember best. His ... especially black women, in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Her implicit messages, that whiteness is superior, are everywhere, including the white baby doll given to Claudia, the idealization of Shirl...

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• Grade Level: High School