Analysis Of Tony Morrison 's ' The Bluest Eye '

Claudia, another character who goes through a similar situation compared to Pecola. She is a young girl who came out from a loving family and is intrusive, yet sensitive.

Pecola evaluated herself ugly, and wanted to have a pair of blue eyes so that every problem could be solved. Pecola was an African-American and lived in a family with problems. Her father ran away because of crime, her brother left because of their fighting parents, and was discriminated simply because she has dark-skin. Pecola is a passive person. She is almost destroyed because of her violent father, Cholly Breedlove, who raped her own daughter after drinking. Because of this, Pecola kept thinking about her goal- to reach the standard of beauty. However, she was never satisfied with it. Pecola believed once she become beautiful, fighting between her parents would no longer happen, her brother would come back, and her father would no long be a rapist. No problem would exist anymore.

“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison is a very complex story. While not being a novel of great length is very long on complexity. It tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young African American girl immersed in poverty and made “ugly” by the Society of the early 1940’s that defines beauty in terms of blonde haired white skinned , and in this case specifically Shirley Temple.

“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, is a story about the life of a young black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who is growing up during post World War I. She prays for the bluest eyes, which will “make her beautiful” and in turn make her accepted by her family and peers. The major issue in the book, the idea of ugliness, was the belief that “blackness” was not valuable or beautiful. This view, handed down to them at birth, was a cultural hindrance to the black race.

            Pecola's friend Claudia is angry at the beauty of whiteness and attempts to dismember white dolls to find where their beauty lies.  There is a sarcastic tone in her voice when she spoke of having

growing up, fear of other people, fear of life into her daughter” (129). This is why Pecola seems to be clueless about what beauty means to her other than having the blue eye desperately.

We are told certain facts about Pecola Breedlove from the perspective of different characters. One being, “Here was an ugly little black girl asking for beauty...A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes” (Morrison, 174). White beauty

In the novel Pecola and two other girls Frieda and Claudia are the main characters. These girls are eleven, nine, and ten years old. Claudia and Frieda are sisters whom live with their mother, father and a man by the name of Henry Washington. Later Pecola then

Everyone that is as young as her and going through what she is, is very hard. Toni Morrison shows her story in different points of view instead of her own. In the beginning Pecola is very fragile and delicate, she is forced out of her house and made to live with a family friend. Both her mother and father are very abusive around her and the rest of her siblings. As the story progresses, she grows

This can be demonstrated by Pecola’s interest in a cup that had Shirley Temple’s face on it, which is highly symbolic within the text, “We knew she was fond of the Shirley Temple cup and took every opportunity to drink milk out of it just to handle sweet Shirley’s face (Morrison 23). Pecola cherished

She drinks several quarts of milk at the home of her friends Claudia and Frieda McTeer just to use their Shirley Temple mug and glaze at young Temple’s blue eyes. One day Pecola is raped by her father, when the child the she conceives dies, Pecola goes mad. She comes to believe that she has the bluest eyes of anyone.

Pecola Breedlove is a young girl growing up black and poor in the early 1940s. She is repeatedly called "ugly" by nearly everyone in her life, from the mean kids at school to her own mother. This constant criticism, the relentless bullying she gets at school, and her rough family life (her parents are always fighting, both verbally and physically) lead Pecola to seek escape from her misery by fantasizing about becoming more beautiful. Pecola begins to believe that if she could just achieve physical beauty, her life would automatically improve. This false belief turns out to be utterly destructive to Pecola, consuming her whole life and, eventually, her sanity. Pecola is a young African American girl, born to Cholly and Pauline Breedlove. She has a brother and her family lives in a small house on the edge of town. Pecola's father was an alcoholic and he abused his wife and Pecola, both physically and sexually. Pecola is not beautiful and she wishes for nothing more than blond hair and blue eyes. She prays everyday to God to make her beautiful. The character's inner struggle is self-confidence because she believes she is ugly. Pecola is quiet, shy, and introverted due to her low self-esteem level. There’s something that I am not in accordance with Pecola and that is that she lets the negativity from other people get to her. The idea of her thinking that she is ugly creates results from her isolation from friends, the community, and even her family. There are three stages

Through the novel, it is declared that the theme of Racism is seen in various images, which reveals the oppression and abuse by The whites. The whites always think that the blacks are not human beings, they have no rights and they are subjected to be slaves only. The main character of the novel, is a black young girl living in Ohio called Pocola Breedlove, this girl who is supposed to live her childhood safely and get her rights as a child, is exposing to several kinds of oppression, apartheid and rape even from her father Cholly. Pocola as a black woman thinks that her color

The Bluest Eye is one of the finest pieces of English literature. This masterpiece is written by Toni Morrison. Here in this novel The Breedlove family has shown the individual identity and perception of beauty perfectly. The Breedlove family is a group of people under the same roof, a family by name only. Cholly the head person of the family is always drunk and an abusive man. His abusive is apparent towards his wife and daughter. He abuses his wife Pauline physically and his daughter Pecola sexually. Pauline works as a “mammy” in a white family and prefers to favor them over her biological family. Pecola is a little black girl with low self-esteem. The world had forced her to believe that she is ugly and she must have blue eyes, if she wants to look beautiful. Therefore, every night she prays before sleeping that she will wake up with blue eyes. She was brought up as a poor unwanted girl in the society. But Pecola always desired the acceptance and love of society. The image of ‘Shirely Temple Beauty’ surrounds her. The idea that she must have blue eyes, if she wants to look beautiful has been imprinted on

Classic literature throughout time has controversial topics that make people feel uncomfortable. The Bluest Eye is a classic novel involving racism, rape, and vulgar language. The author, Toni Morrison, shares the topics through a beautifully written story that is extremely accurate and makes readers understand things from multiple perspectives. Therefore, the story has many positive qualities that give it the ability to be bold about uncomfortable topics and it should not be banned or challenged.