"The horror at the heart of her yearning was exceeded only by the evil of fulfilment" The text The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is a text based upon the fate of a little girl, Pecola. Pecola acts as a scapegoat for the black society of America, as their void in the place of culture explodes into a rank distaste for themselves. Pecola suffers this twisted perspective of beauty, and in doing so absorbs the ... anger of the disorientated black community. ... -indulging black society which takes out its insecurities on Pecola, drive Pecola into this downward spiral into "madness". Once holding th...

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In her novel The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison tells a tragic tale, carefully leading the reader through the circumstances which result in Pecola Breedlove's demise. She does not allow the reader to feel a satisfied hatred toward the characters who directly hurt Pecola, instead she spends chapters acquainting readers with internal worlds of these abusers and the events and circumstances of their lives. It becomes clear that these assailants are in ... life, some of their actions are reprehensible and yet their traits and motives are all too understandable, familiar, and human. Pecola and her famil...

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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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• Grade Level: High School