Discrimination In The Bluest Eye

In the course of The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove has shown signs of low self esteem. She would always be the one to compare herself to something she admires to be beautiful. Perhaps, sometimes problems surround her get a little too much, she has not yet realized the fog will clear up. For example in the autumn chapter, a quote has said “Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would only see what there was to see: the eyes of other people.” There is no such thing as a “Pecola’s point of view”. She lives off of people's judgements and believe physical appearance is all there is to a person. Her desire to be beautiful is not having attractive long black hair and golden skin color, but blonde hair with a white pigmentation. Which causes her to dream and want even more.

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.

She thought that if she had blue eyes, the blue eyes of the accepted white ideal, she would be beautiful and therefore loved. The acquisition of the blue eyes she so fiercely covets signifies Pecola's step into madness. It was a safe place, where she could have her blue eyes, and where she could be accepted.

With some background knowledge on Pauline, the mother of Pecola, it’s easier to understand some of Pecola's core traits. There are parallelisms between Pecola and Pauline. They find their reality too harsh to deal with, so they become fixated on one thing that makes them happy, and they ignore everything else. Pecola's desire for blue eyes is more of an inheritance that she received from her mother. One of Pauline’s own obsessions was back when she was fascinated with the world of the big pictures. As long as they can believe in their fantasies, they're willing to sacrifice anything else.

From the day Pecola is introduced to us in the novel, she has been a target for others to dump their “waste” onto her. On page 163, Claudia states, “We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness…”(Morrison

Which is the complete opposite of Pecola. Even though Freida likes Shirley, she still loves herself, she knows who she is. She validates herself worth and that is something that Pecola doesn't know how to do. When the McTeer family allowed Mr. Henry to live with them, over the time, he touched Frieda. Her father was outraged and so was everyone else, seeing that they love and care about Freida, they chased him out.

Pecola and the sisters then shared childhood adventures, and what Claudia remembers in particular is the startling onset of Pecola’s puberty when she unexpectedly first had her menstruation.

and she did a thing that reminded him of her mom when they meet. He’s an abuser that made him feel like attacking because now he seen his daughter as weak. Pecola not only did she get raped once but twice by her own father. Pecola in the novel asked Claudia “how do you do that? I mean, how do you get somebody to love you?”

However, I believe that the two previous events helped lead up to the most dramatic scene of the story. Pecola was raped by her father not just once, but twice. All Pecola ever wanted out of Jr. and Maureen was so hopefully be friends. Bring happiness into her life and be close with someone. All that the two of them left her with was an empty self.

The novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison is subjected on a young girl, Pecola Breedlove and her experiences growing up in a poor black family. The life depicted is one of poverty, ridicule, and dissatisfaction of self. Pecola feels ugly because of her social status as a poor young black girl and longs to have blue eyes, the pinnacle of beauty and worth. Throughout the book, Morrison touches on controversial subjects, such as the depicting of Pecola's father raping her, Mrs. Breedlove's sexual feelings toward her husband, and Pecola's menstruation. The book's content is controversial on many levels and it has bred conflict among its readers.

There are many themes that seem to run throughout this story. Each theme and conflict seems to always involve the character of Pecola Breedlove. There is the theme of finding an identity. There is also the theme of Pecola as a victim. Of all the characters in the story we can definitely sympathize with Pecola because of the many harsh circumstances she has had to go through in her lifetime. Perhaps her rape was the most tragic and dramatic experience Pecola had experiences, but nonetheless she continued her life. She eliminates her sense of ugliness, which lingers in the beginning of the story, and when she sees that she has blue eyes now she changes her perspective on life. She believes that these eyes have been given

Pecola strived for beauty throughout the whole book, she knew that people though she was an ugly child. So she thought if she had blue eyes , things would be different and she would be recognized and become beautiful. Pecola, being a child, did not know that her wish was just not possible. But she was a kid and didn’t know any better. She figured that if she had blue eyes like Maurine Pie, she would be popular and beautiful. Pecola asked Soaphead Church for blue eyes, and he told he would. Although Pecola never really got blue eyes, she thought she did and it was enough to fulfill her needs.

A big character in the story also comes down to Pecola.Now,Pecola probably had one of the harshest pasts.She

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

However, what makes the largest impact is how the child characters, in the end, succumb to the unhealthy beauty ideals. For Pecola the consequences are tragic, she becomes insane in the process of trying to conform to white beauty ideals. But the author also ends the novel with a more positive attitude. Why Morrison chooses to lead and close with the voice of Claudia being overly skeptical towards white notions of beauty is to make the familiar concepts of beauty seem strange to us and challenge our beliefs and assumptions of what it takes to label something as beautiful and perhaps more importantly demonstrate that beauty is not definite and immutable, it is constructed by humans, and is therefore something that can be