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 story is developed out ... have been damaged and hurt in their own lives. The reader first realizes the problem when Pecola is affronted by the town grocer, is taunted by the neighborho...

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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 her entire life, Pecola was mistreated ... turn out rational and sane, she did turn out the way she believed she should: with the bluest eyes. This signified her strength potency...

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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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... in 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 the emotional downfall of this little ... ...

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