The Bluest Eye Book Report

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

In the novel The Bluest Eye Pecola is involved in a quest – for love and identity and Morrison depicts the world in the novel from a child’s point of view. The story of the eleven-year-old Pecola, the tragic female protagonist of The Bluest Eye, stemmed out of Morrison’s memory of a girlhood friend who as well craved for ‘blue eyes’. Morrison had written of the little Black girl whom she knew :

As stated before, it is based or should one say inspired by the life of the slave Margaret Garner, who was an African American slave . She attempts to escape in 1856 Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio, which was a free state. A mob of slave owners, planters and overseers arrived to repossess her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue

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

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

Throughout Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, many characters, including Soaphead Church and Geraldine, use Pecola Breedlove to make themselves feel better. Using Pecola as a scapegoat, the other characters justify their shortcomings by comparing themselves to her. When they think about Pecola, the other characters in the book feel superior and thus boost their egos.

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 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.

This is a questions a recent study published this month in the recent volume of the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajmg.b.32316/abstract) undertakes to find out. The hypothesis suggested by researches from the University of Vermont was that the population making up of light colored eyes may have higher occurrences of alcoholism than those with dark eye colors. Most individuals with light colored eyes are also of European ancestry and were found to consume more alcohol than other individuals.

Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, presents the lives of several impoverished black families in the 1940’s in a rather unconventional and painful manner. Ms. Morrison leads the reader through the lives of select children and adults, describing a few powerful incidents, thoughts and experiences that lend insight into the motivation and. behavior of these characters. In a somewhat unconventional manner, the young lives of Pauline Williams Breedlove and Charles (Cholly) Breedlove are presented to the reader. Through these descriptions, the reader comes to understand how they become the kind of adults they are. Background information is given not necessarily to incur sympathy but to lend understanding.

In the book The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, there are many main themes and central ideas that the plot follows. The theme that I chose is the aspect of love and how it is displayed through the characters. In The Bluest Eye, the perception of love is viewed in different ways. Throughout the book, love is one thing that remained constant. Some instances it was the lack of love; other situations there were characters who showed love for someone or something, but in a way that is not normal or accepted in our community today. In some ways they are different from how people today view love, and in some ways they are the same.

In the book The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison in 1970, consists of multiple interlocking stories, one of the most powerful being Cholly Breedlove ,Pecola’s father. Cholly Breedlove is a man who has suffered through abhorrent bearings such as degradation, condescension, abuse, and isolation. In general, most people would be unable to mentally and emotionally persist through the misfortune he was confronted against. Isolated in a society defined by racism, economic inequality, and fanaticism, Cholly due to his race and social status was not only shunned but considered barbarous.Comparatively, in the novella Chronicle Of A Death Foretold written by Gabriel García Márquez, the plot revolves around the deliberation of the death of Santiago Nasar. Santiago Nasar was an mysterious

Ndeye Tall Hunter Literature Resis Societal Influences Lots of people today are influenced by society. Not only do they look at society for what’s in and what isn’t, they see it as a lifestyle, whatever all the people think is good thats what becomes the norm. Like in the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Pecola’s society sets the norm that blue eyes means you are the best and in order to be deemed beautiful by society you need blue eyes. Society is supposed to make people safe and the cops and now and days are not doing a very good job, like in The Parable Of The Sower, Lauren’s society is plagued with crime, and their police are doing nothing to stop it, so thats why her society is so messed up. Pecola, In the Bluest Eye is psychologically

were dirty and loud”(Morrison 87).She is teaching her son how to acknowledge the difference between black people, the colored who would be fair skinned and the African Americans who are dark skinned. She did not want her son Junior to play with dark skinned black people because she found them to be dirty and loud. This was one problem the delusion of passing caused. Geraldine already passed and was welcomed by the white community and left behind her dark skinned people later pushing them away in order to keep her status in the white community.

In the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, beauty is measured by how light your skin is and how blue your eyes are. The novel is about a little girl named Pecola Breedlove, and her desire to have blonde hair and blue eye to become beautiful. Pecola comes from a dysfunctional family, and she believes the only way to feel loved and safe is for her to look beautiful like the little white girls she sees on TV. Pecola’s parents have had their struggles through life about beauty and love; they never grasped how to appreciate Pecola and sense her needs because they never had anyone in their lives understand them.