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 ...

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• 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

... , which are valued by the society she grows in. In my opinion, Morrison uses white and blue colors to describe the beauty of people and black and brown colors to draw negative sides like hate and cruelty. The writer tries to portray oppression of the black population. Morrison shows us the truth about society at that time. The story begins with the description of the difficult life of the Breedloves who are ... because nobody will show it to her. In this book Toni Morrison trying to show how a racist social system wears down the minds and souls of people. As the novel unravels, in autumn...

• Word Count: 1329
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School