Bluest Eye Critique

Women. When hearing that word alone, you think of weakness, their insignificance, and how lowly they are viewed in society. Females can be seen as unworthy or nothing without a man if they are not advocating them and are constantly being treated differently from men. However, in the book, “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, they live up to their reputations for how they view themselves. Specifically, being focused on women like Pecola, and Claudia. They are often questioning their worth from society’s judgement of beauty. Though one character, Frieda embraces it despite being black. With having everything temporary, the desire of grasping and having something permanent increases. The women desires to be of

The annotated bibliography is the second of four main projects in this writing course. I have never done an annotated bibliography before, so this was a learning experience. The expectations for myself on this assignment was to find good credible sources from the URI libraries database and write thorough summaries on the main points from each of them. I met most of the expectations where I explained the source material well and why it correlates to the argument. I formatted the citations well. I think one thing i should have done better to fulfill the expectations completely is to find better sources that contain data and statistics to support an argument. I learned from this project that credible sources are important and that for an annotations

The novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison presents the certain type of beauty admired by the main character in this fictional story, which seems to be the main content of the novel. The first thing that the people judge is the physical appearance, no matter from which part of the world anyone comes from. The stereotype of defining a beauty in a certain way still prevails in our society. On the other hand, human beings being a social animal, cannot remain secluded from the society. They shape themselves into the societal beliefs, values, trend, culture etc. of the society. Especially, the ones who do not have the tendency or ability to contend are easily influenced. Likewise, the main character, the young black girl self-loathes up to the point

While doing this, I found out that some of the sources were not what I thought they were going to be. For example, one of the sources for my public argument seemed like it was against abortion, but once I got to the end, I found out that the author was actually for abortion. I had this problem while writing both of my essays, so I had to go back to the databases to find new sources. I think the most important change I made during the writing process was changing a few of my sources to ones that would better validate the arguments in each annotated bibliography. After searching within the database for a while, I was able to find other articles that gave me a wider range of information and statistics to choose from. If I would have not taken the time to go back and find sources that would better fit my argument, I would have needed to do it later in the writing process of each essay. Because of this, I went back for both of my annotated bibliographies and replaced some of the sources that I thought were good at first, but after reading more into them I found that they did not provide me with the evidence I

The final project is the submission an annotated bibliography based upon the above conceptual perspective outlined in the project description for your selected project or paper. An annotated bibliography is a list of the references you will be using to support your perspective. Each reference annotation will have below it an annotation which identifies the topic of the study, what the strengths and weaknesses of the study are, and how does it contribute to your interest in the topic.

I apologize for interrupting your spring break, but I recently came across a dilemma while working on my annotated bibliography.

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) takes place in Ohio towards the tail end of the depression. The story focuses on the character of Pecola Breedlove who wants to have blue eyes. Pecola becomes convinced that if she had blue eyes her life would be different. Through the eyes of our narrator, Claudia, and her sister Frieda we see the pervasive racism and abuse Pecola is subjected to. Claudia and Frieda act as witnesses to Pecola’s disintegration and as a result, they will spend the rest of their lives grappling with what happened to Pecola.

Foremost, the annotated bibliographies I wrote would be much better. When I originally wrote the annotated bibliographies for my other classes, my professor did not provide the step-by-step instructions that I used diligently to write the annotated bibliography for this class. Typically, I do not like handouts as I see them as wasting paper because I could simply write down the information in my notes. When I do this, I make the information concise, by writing what I need to know and being able to leave off what I

In Toni Morrison’s novel, “The Bluest Eye”, a character named Pecola Breedlove had always been wishing to have blue eyes, because it was considered as pretty in the novel’s world. Also, a lighter skins African American, Maureen Peal, bullied the Pecola, who have darker skin, because Maureen Peal thinks herself is cute while Pecola is ugly. Similarly, Pecola always thought of herself in a negative way, in which, she calls herself ugly. On the other hand, Maureen Peal, think highly of herself, because she came from a wealthier family and more people like her. Furthermore, Pecola did not have an easy life due to all those hardships that she had to come across through her life. Morrison’s novel shows a contrast between the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant world and the world the characters of the novel live in by showing us how the characters in the novel are not living a good life and they get treated differently because of their skin color, and they are in a lower class than the others. Also, the kids are being neglected by their parents and there are child molestation in the family. I think today’s world is slowing changing but still has some similar divisions, because there is still racism out there. However, people are starting to stand up for themselves and appreciate their own culture and ethnicity more in today’s world.

A woman’s race and the time period she lives in influences not only whether she will be a victim of sexual assault but also, the punishment of the offender. Toni Morrison, The author of The Bluest Eye, a victim of segregation, deals with sexual assault and segregation in her book. Chole Anthony Wofford, who goes by the name of Toni Morrison when writing her books, was born in Lorain, Ohio on February 18, 1931. Her father had several jobs to support their family, while her mother worked as a domestic worker. Toni lived in an integrated neighborhood. However, she did not become aware of segregation until she was a teenager. Her and her family eventually moved to the North to get away from

In this week, I have learned something interesting I’ve never thought about. The new technique that I learned in this week has been annotating bibliography in APA style. In fact, this lesson taught me how to get a list of sources and write the main ideas about the source itself. Although I scored a low score on the first draft on the annotated bibliography assignment, I think if I practice this skill more often, I will be able to summarize the author’s arguments and analyze his/her evidences in future. in addition, this new technique will expand my mind to read articles comprehensively to support my research when graduating. In the end, this skill is a good one because it gives the reader of my research a little summary about each source that

In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison strongly ties the contents of her novel to its structure and style through the presentation of chapter titles, dialogue, and the use of changing narrators. These structural assets highlight details and themes of the novel while eliciting strong responses and interpretations from readers. The structure of the novel also allows for creative and powerful presentations of information. Morrison is clever in her style, forcing readers to think deeply about the novel’s heavy content without using the structure to allow for vagueness.

In my peer feedback, I received helpful information to revise and edit my Annotated Bibliography. What I noticed most from both my peer feedbacks is that my APA citations were not accurate. I had completely messed up the doi at the end of each, I needed to fix the capitalization in the titles of the journal articles, and I needed to italicize a couple of the periodical titles. I am thankful for getting that feedback and I made sure to make some changes after becoming aware of the errors. I had initially thought that my APA citations were what I was strong at.

I found that creating an annotated bibliography was incredibly useful and important in helping me organize my research. The assignment forced me to keep track of my sources. I like to scan through journals quickly and take notes on what information I'd like to revisit based on titles and headlines. My method is great for finding research, but the downside is that I can sometimes lose track of the properly cited source for the information. I think this is incredibly valuable because of the real problems that exist due to plagiarism.

My group and I met in Mckeldin Library. All three of us were there on time and we worked for about one hour and a half. The primary focus for the day was the annotated bibliography. We attempted to find three sources each which we will then individually annotate. We plan on meeting again before turning the annotated bibliography in. Overall, we get along and work well together.