... and physical abuse. The research will focus on, in the The Bluest Eye, the themes of the white standard of beauty, rejection, and the skin tone hierarchy. One of the major themes represented in The Bluest Eyes is White America being the standard of what human beauty is. This theme is represented all throughout the novel being the main rationale for Pecola Breedlove desire to have the bluest eyes. Toni Morrison wrote this novel ... attractive and often wishes, dreams, yearns in desperation to fit in the model of white beauty. The thing she desires most to have is the Bluest eyes of all, ...

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• Approx Pages: 10
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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 is ridiculed, and hated by her community because of this. She idolizes images of blond haired, blue-eyed white girls like Shirley Temple. She believes having bright, beautiful, ... 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 ...

• Word Count: 1289
• 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 is ridiculed, and hated by her community because of this. She idolizes images of blond haired, blue-eyed white girls like Shirley Temple. She believes having bright, beautiful, ... 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...

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

... long to look acceptable. Brown eyes are not acceptable. She must get the bluest eyes in order to have self-worth. Morrison also uses freedom to show the destructive consequences of the Americanization process. She deals with the issue of freedom as it relates to the African-American race in 1941 in the life of Cholly. Morrison describes his early existence as one full of disappointment, struggle and lack ... Cholly. After being abandoned by his mother, rejected by his father, and condemned by his skin color, Cholly has nothing more to lose. Morrison shows us how the American idea of bea...

• Word Count: 1694
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School