Self Discrimination In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

At a time when blue-eyed, pale skin Shirley Temple is idolized by white and black alike,

Toni Morrison is one of the most talented and successful African-American authors of our time. Famous for works such as The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved, Morrison has cultivated large audiences of all ethnicities and social classes with her creative style of writing. It is not Morrison’s talent of creating new stories that attracts her fans. In contrast, it is her talent of revising and modernizing traditional Biblical and mythological stories that have been present in literature for centuries. Morrison replaces the characters in these myths, whom would have been white, middle-class males, with characters who depict the cultural practices in black communities. The protagonists in Morrison’s works are primarily African-American women

Toni Morrison is the author of such a mysterious but exhilarating book Sula (1973). Growing up she love to story-tell and read; leading her to become a professor and editor at many places and universities. Also, winning a Noble Prize for Literature in 1993 for many of her phenomenal works that provide powerful depictions of the world that Black people currently or use to live in (America). For example, the novel Sula; Toni Morrison writes this story to be about a friendship in its most tremendous form - not two women as friends, but two women as an individual, unknowingly sharing almost everything. She also covers many events that involve suffering within a community and many different relationships.

Black writers, especially an African American woman are known to have more difficulty when it comes to publication and recognition, and therefore desperately have to please a white audience in order to achieve success. Morrison decided that she wanted to enforce positive work associated with black literature. Morrison successfully achieved that goal by discussing and implementing controversial universal themes that exist in the world.

The black literature portrayedonly the darker plot unless prominent writes like Toni Morrison, who has depicted the lives of black characters and cultures who struggle with identity, racism and hostility, Langston Hughes, a founder of Harlem Renaissance and Maya Angelou, chronicled her life through her autobiographies, evoke. They aimed for expressing their experiences with happy note. Modernism has paved the way for it. Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison are the protagonist of their novels representing themselves as the victim of feminist criticism. Both the writers share a common episodes and characters that were central in the author’s journey towards self-discovery and maturity. These writers celebrate feminism and use it as a tool in the struggles of African American black women

The media has become the world’s largest oppression outlet. Whether it be through movies, TV shows, or real-life news, the media has become capable of shifting one’s view on either yourself or other groups of people. Types of oppression that can result from the media include, but are not limited to, internalized oppression and interpersonal oppression. Internalized oppression is when a member of an oppressed group believes and acts out the stereotypes created about their group. Interpersonal oppression, on the other hand, is the belief that one group of people are superior to another group of people. Essentially, the media broadcasts ideas from interpersonal oppression and causes internalized oppression through the

Heba Judeh Dr. Werner English 2238-001 1 December 2015 Sula: Gender in Relation to Race In a short novel of only one hundred and seventy pages, Toni Morrison’s Sula manages to span fifty years of a strange friendship between Nel Wright and Sula Peace. This novel is set in the early 1900s in a black community called the Bottom but was not published until 1973, right after the Civil Rights Movement.

She makes a humanistic approach to the art of fiction-writing. She is conscious of herself, her community, the white world all around. She is a novelist with a conscience and a commitment. She cannot keep herself away from her community-and she knows that her community has been suffering humiliation and exploitation at the hands of white masters. So she has to bring in the white exploiters, the cruel masters into her fiction. She does not present a direct confrontation between the black and the white. That is, the poor black deprived community has no weapons and no slogans against the white lords. They even cannot raise voice against their oppressors. The black people especially women have to suffer and suffer quietly and patiently. Toni Morrison gives a mighty voice to the deep silent sufferings of the black people. For the first time she gave voices to the feminine silences that had ragged their consciences. In this respect, she becomes not only conscience of her community, of her black female characters but the conscience of the whole mankind.

Toni Morrison is an author who has received praise for her books about people of color. She sometimes comes under the scrutiny of white people because she only writes about people of color and does not focus on whites. Interestingly the only time Morrison has written for whites is in the first seven pages of Sula to ease them into a story of the relationships between women and men and women and other women, along with the juxtaposition of blacks and whites.

Outline I. Introduction A. Toni Morrison is recognized for many book publishing’s in literature. Morrison is popularly known for her writings of past culture events pertaining to the harsh reality of the treatment towards slavery. Morrison was not educated on African American history until her teen years. As Morrison once stated, “when I was in first grade, nobody thought I was inferior. I was the only black in the class and the one only child who could read” (Toni Morrison Bio.com).

When I think about a literature author Tone Morrison and her work are the reason I choose her. Tone Morrison is known artist who won Nobel Prize and Pulitzer prize- winning American novelist. Tone Morrison is one of the most respected novelists in America and literature. From the publication of her first novel, The Bluest Eye in 1970 through the release of her most recent, Love in 2003, Morrison has sought new ways into the stories of everyday African American lives. Morrison stories don’t focus on heroes and leaders. Some of her characters were Pecola Breedlove in Bluest Eye, who feels hopelessly inferior to white standards of beauty and wishes for blue eyes, and Sula, the title character of Morrison's second novel, who rejects her community’s

Davon Johnson English III 4/14/2015 Mr. Thomas Sula paper Toni Morrison is an American novelist and a famous African American writer. Her novels are known for their great themes, clear dialogue, and highly detailed characters. Toni Morrison is very symbolic when it comes to her works, and she uses symbols generously to convey meanings that add more depth to her novels. Morrison is generally contingent on symbols and makes them very obvious for the reader to point out.

    In her novel, Beloved, Toni Morrison conveys her strong feelings about slavery. One of the major themes throughout the book is the impact that slavery has on the

Racism is a problem that everyone of all races have to deal with. We have been struggling with this issue for quite a while now and it doesn't seem to be getting any easier. Toni Morrison wrote a novel, “The Bluest Eye” about a young african american girl who was not happy to be her race. This made me wonder, how we're young black females treated around the upbringing of Toni Morrison and why? While researching I found out that they were treated this way due to discrimination, segregation, poverty, and nonetheless feminism.

Black writers, especially an African American woman are known to have more difficulty when it comes to publication and recognition, and therefore desperately have to please a white audience in order to achieve success. Morrison decided that she wanted to enforce positive work associated with black literature. Morrison successfully achieved that goal by discussing and implementing controversial universal themes that exist in the world.