How Did Blue Eyes Develop

Eye colour, or more specifically iris colour, is determined by pigments. The type, distribution, and amount of pigments in the iris is what gives colour. The hue and saturation of the iris colour are extremely highly correlated, which points to a biological explanation. Blue and brown eyes are genetically recessive, which means they can be predicted using DNA (Liu et al, 2010).

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.

Because "The Bluest Eye" crystallizes the negative affect society can have on people, specifically African American girls in this novel, it is a teachable book for kids to determine the difference between what society wants and what is right. In the novel, Claudia says “We looked hard for flaws to restore equilibrium” (Morrison 68.) Claudia was referring to a white girl in her school. This is significant because society lead these African American girls to drool over white girls because they are supposedly perfect or worthier then them. It teaches kids the effects of society’s actions, and makes them realize self-worth does not come from the way you look. On page 22 of the novel Claudia states, “I try to discover what eludes me” (Morrison

Toni Morrison's first novel The Bluest Eye takes place in Loraine Ohio in the 1940's, it is the story being told by Claudia MacTeer of an event that took place when she was child. The story centers around Pecola a 11year old young girl who is not seen or recognized due to her feature characteristics, she is described as black and ugly, when Pecola is raped and impregnated by her father the girls believe that no Marigolds bloomed that autumn because of the tragedy that drove their friend Pecola insane. Within the novel Morrison introduces us to the Mac Teers' - Claudia about 9-10years old, her older sister Frieda who was about 10-11years old at the time and their Mr. & Mrs. Mac Teer. The Breedloves- Pecola, her mother Pauline, father Cholly and her brother Sam. Geraldine(a lady from Mobile or Aiken) and her son Junior.

Many people can think back to their childhood and be reminded of many happy memories. They lived a life full of innocence and purity; however, in The Bluest Eye the young girls did not get that same experience. Children lead different lives, some of which deal with rape and abuse. The young black girls that Toni Morrison writes about face many hardships that no young child should encounter. These hardships take away the innocence of their childhood.

Desperation for something so out of reach can drive a person mad. Pecola in "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, has an identity crisis. She strives to have blue eyes. In a world where black, usually brown-eyed people are seen as a lesser being than the blue-eyed blonde, white, counterparts, Pecola is at a disadvantage. Not only within society but with her family and school life. Pecola has to deal with a violent, loveless home, living with her rapist father. Then she has to go to a school where she is constantly abused and mistreated. Pecola sees blue eyes as a saving grace. That just maybe her life wouldn't be so bad.

The rape of Pecola is a tragic occurrence. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison focuses heavily on the topic of her rape. Morrison shows how the rape has affected Pecola by creating a powerful and compelling tale, allowing the reader to connect with Pecola and better empathize with her. Morrison’s stylistic choices and use of powerful language make her story even more commanding and eye-catching and further the reader’s understanding of Pecola’s misery and their sympathy towards her.

The ultimately summarized the primary and secondary pigmentation traits are associated in the six regions on the genome. The research allowed us to identify several new variants that account for differences in the pigmentation. Each of these variants are viewed to have a moderate effect on pigmentation in Europeans. It has been thought that before migrators bought the light skin species out of africa 60,000 years back, our ancestors were all dark skinned. It is consistent with the correlation of human skin pigmentation and proximity to the equator. The results of this research support the conclusion that most of the pigmentation variants discovered in this study show positive selection in European populations. The advantage of having a lighter skin pigmentation is that it facilitates the formation of Vitamin D3 though lighter skin people live in colder areas where there is low exposure to sunlight/ UV rays. The newly discovered determinants provide promising candidates for for forensic geneticists and for the study of

In the novel The Bluest Eye, Pecola is raped by her own father. After the rape the town shames her, accusing Pecola of enjoying the rape. After this Pecola's obsession for beauty takes a dark turn. In the quote, “Oh, yes. My eyes. My blue eyes. Let me look again. See how pretty they are?” (Morrison 216), Pecola falls into a deep depression that leads to her obsession with having blue eyes.

Throughout “The Bluest Eye” the author describes beauty a lot during the novel. Having said that beauty in the 1950-1970’s was the typical blond hair blue eyes, Toni Morrison brings attention to racism and social standards after the Great Depression. There are major events that we see in the novel, the girls in the town of Ohio want to change their appearance

The Bluest eye describes beauty as blues eyes. Neither one of the young girls in neither of these stories have blue eyes. Pecola, Claudia, and Frieda all believe their ugly and struggle with life itself because of it. Pecola struggles with a dysfunctional family, Claudia and Frieda are sisters where their pain come from their own family and both tend to lie about the truth that goes on. Pecola the protagonists in the story not only calls herself ugly but has an disfunctional relationship with her parents. Pecola’s mother never listens to her and her father torches her with mom never believing her. Runaway love is a song

My maternal family shares many similar physical characteristics with each other. My Grandmother, Grandfather, Uncle David, mother, sister, Cousin Brooke, and Cousin Ashley all have blue eyes. My cousins Amanda, Ashley, Emily, Sarah and myself have green eyes. Uncle Robert, April, Alesha and Katherine are the only members with brown eyes. Virgil, Dorothy, David, Robert, Ruth, Amanda, April, Erin and I are all born with naturally brunette hair. Ashley, Alesha, Katherine, Brooke, and Sarah have

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye follows Pecola Breedlove’s “journey” to obtain beauty in the form of the titular blue eyes. Not only is it told in Claudia’s perspective, but the readers witnesses several backstories, namely Geraldine, Pauline, Cholly, and Soaphead Church’s, which is in a third-person perspective. This might be seen as odd at first, but after taking a deeper look into their pasts, there is something that stands out: something “beautiful” in the eyes of these people. These “beautiful” things are as unobtainable as Pecola’s wish for blue eyes, and yet they are an important aspect of The Bluest Eye, as are the “beauty” standards during that time. This “beauty” standard is what most African-Americans yearned (some even able to

The Bluest Eye is a novel following the lives of the Breedlove and MacTeer families. Pecola Breedlove, who is exceptionally ugly, is raised by her perpetually inebriated father, Cholly, and habitually irritated mother, Pauline. Her parents are abusive physically and mentally to each other as well as Pecola. As a result, Pecola is a self-conscious girl who believes that white skin and blue eyes are the only way to be beautiful. Pecola moves in with the MacTeer family for a short while and befriends Freida and Claudia. When Pecola moves back into her home, her father comes home drunk one day and rapes her. A short time later, Pecola visits a mystic called Soaphead Church asking for him to give her blue eyes. Instead of giving her the aid she needed, he uses her to kill a dog he disdains. After this, the neighborhood learns that Pecola is pregnant with her father’s baby. Freida and Claudia are the only people who want the baby to live, so they sacrifice money they were saving for a bike and plant marigold seeds so that God will let the baby live. The baby dies and Pecola eventually becomes insane, deluding herself into believing she has the bluest eyes.

“Most cases of Heterochromia are hereditary, and these may be associated with a congenital syndrome. Other cases are acquired and caused by a disease or due to an injury. Sometimes one eye may change color following certain diseases or injuries,” (Dahl). Heterochromia is rarely an inherited genetic syndrome, but Heterochromia can be caused by Waardenbug syndrome,