The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison

Food and appetite is a relatable experience for everyone. Many believe food is strictly just for enjoying while you eat, however within Toni Morrison’s novel “The Bluest Eyes” she makes many distinct references to food. Through these means, she creates each individual personality of the characters. She goes on to use this association for most food references within her novel. The result enables the reader to have a more relatable experience with each of her characters regardless of color. Overall, these food and appetites references allow the reader to have a more hands-on approach and bring about a greater understanding of her character 's mentality while helping to disregard racial associations.

Toni Morrison, the author of The Bluest Eye, centers her novel around two things: beauty and wealth in their relation to race and a brutal rape of a young girl by her father. Morrison explores and exposes these themes in relation to the underlying factors of black society: racism and sexism. Every character has a problem to deal with and it involves racism and/or sexism. Whether the characters are the victim or the aggressor, they can do nothing about their problem or condition, especially when concerning gender and race. Morrison's characters are clearly at the mercy of preconceived notions maintained by society. Because of these preconceived notions, the racism found in The Bluest Eye is not whites against blacks. Morrison writes about

...Morrison explores in the novel [and] centers upon the standard of beauty by which white women are judged in this country. They are taught that their blonde hair, blue eyes, and creamy skins are not only wonderful, but

One may argue that women are stronger than men, and others may argue the opposite. Each gender possesses crucial characteristics to complete the other; however, one may always seem more fragile than the other—whether it be male or female. Toni Morrison displays exactly which one is more dominant over the other through her works in literature. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s message towards gender roles is that a man’s sole purpose is to be filled with lust, and a woman’s sole purpose is to be used as the man’s outlet for his desires in order to display the specific roles between women as evidenced by Soaphead’s actions towards underaged girls, Claudia’s jealousy over her sister’s vast experience, and Cholly’s seemingly indifference towards intercourse with Pauline.

Throughout all of history there has been an ideal beauty that most have tried to obtain. But what if that beauty was impossible to grasp because something was holding one back. There was nothing one could do to be ‘beautiful’. Growing up and being convinced that one was ugly, useless, and dirty. For Pecola Breedlove, this state of longing was reality. Blue eyes, blonde hair, and pale white skin was the definition of beauty. Pecola was a black girl with the dream to be beautiful. Toni Morrison takes the reader into the life of a young girl through Morrison’s exceptional novel, The Bluest Eye. The novel displays the battles that Pecola struggles with each and every day. Morrison takes the reader through the themes of whiteness and beauty,

Although written decades apart, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye both explore the trials and tribulations that young black girls must endure as they begin to step into womanhood. While the burdens that the protagonists in each of these texts differ in some key ways, one of the most interesting things that both Woodson and Morrison depicted was a sense of difficulty in coping with these changes, and rather than having any semblance of mastery over their circumstances, these young protagonists would instead project their emotions onto something else as they try to discover what causes their suffering.

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye explores the impact of home on childhood, the formative years of any human. Throughout the book, she describes the childhoods of both adults, namely Polly Breedlove and Cholly Breedlove, and children, specifically Pecola, Claudia, and “Junior,” and leaves the reader to figure out how their childhoods shaped who they are. In the novel. Morrison argues that the totality of one’s childhood, including one’s home and experiences, is key in forming one’s disposition and character later in life. In doing so, Morrison wants the reader to see that the best defense against a predatory, racist society is the home.

Social class is a major theme in the book The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison is saying that there are dysfunctional families in every social class, though people only think of it in the lower class. Toni Morrison was also stating that people also use social class to separate themselves from others and apart from race; social class is one thing Pauline and Geraldine admire.Claudia, Pecola, and Frieda are affected by not only their own social status, but others social status too - for example Geraldine and Maureen Peal. Characters in the book use their social class as another reason for being ugly. Readers are reminded of the theme every time a new character enters into the book.

When one thinks of the word house, a place of comfort, love, and support comes to mind. Meanwhile, society tends to forget that initially home is a house: a constructed place of living that has all the materialistic essentials to survive in it; but is not a home because it has no feeling of love, safety or serenity within it. These two words, “home” and “house” seem so similar, but are very different in their meanings. In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, houses and homes are depicted very neatly and compared with one another, as the residents of those. Even though everything origins around Breedloves’ family and shown through their lives, almost all of the characters are preoccupied with defining their social class status in Midwestern society during the Great Depression. There is an evident desire to escape poverty and the limiting circumstances of the time and their social classes; represented through houses and physical space characters in. In addition to the social and economical influences, houses in the novel also symbolize the emotional situations and values of the characters who inhabit them. At the time, owning a house says something about one 's income and social class status, especially for African Americans, which are coming out of the age of slavery. However, the pressure from the environment creates emotional situations that hard to overcome and cuts all accomplished efforts to none. Followed by the mental state characters’ values change and are projected onto

The novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison follows the life of a young girl Pecola Breedlove, and how her family and society were the primary sources in leading her to insanity. The crucial element resulting in Pecola’s psychosis was being raped by her biological father, Cholly Breedlove. In Rebecca Andrew’s article, “Taking Refuge in “How:” Dissecting the Motives Behind Cholly’s Rape in The Bluest Eye,” readers are offered three theories of why Cholly raped his daughter Pecola; was it due to his desolate past, his hatred of woman, or is he demonstrating his love the only way he knows how? In analyzing Cholly’s character, it is evident that he was tormented since childhood. Lacking the guidance and understanding of healthy interpersonal relations, Cholly express his emotions for his daughter through the only outlet he understands; sex.

Women now and from the past are a part of one of the most tedious battles that needs to end with the use of common sense. Some males have the tendency to think that they have unlimited power and that nothing is going to stop them from trying to harass their partners, or other women. An example of this harsh reality goes to the written book by Toni Morrison, dubbed ‘The Bluest Eye’, following behind its movie counterpart. The MacTeer family took Mr.Henry (a boarder) and a young girl named Pecola under their wing after the suffering of the Great Depression. The two sisters – Frieda and Claudia – met with Pecola’s admiration of Shirley Temple, whom she believed Shirley’s whiteness is considered captivating while her black skin tone is considered a disgrace. Pecola confesses of her home life being rather difficult since her father, Cholly, abuses the use of alcohol and constantly fights with his wife.

In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye the purpose of this essay is to examine the cycle of abuse. The Bluest Eye is associated with violence, humiliation and immorality. It is about the pleasures and the sexual initiation. Sexual initiation is particularly violent, hatred and humiliating, leaving a last effect on characters.

Exposed. The gravel comes in contact with the knee grazing it ever so slightly, but just enough, to bring the crimson blood to percolate from the naked and raw flesh, just waiting to be infected. The older sister runs into the house in a stir of panic as she hears the abating cry of her little sister. She rushes into the medicine cabinet of the bathroom, gripping the box ever so tightly rushing back to a pool of tears sitting on her driveway. Hurriedly, she peels back the thin paper tab and pulls out the defense against unwanted parasites; pressing it against her sister’s dark skin. “It looks funny, it stands out”, the little girl complained. It was true, the ivory Band-Aid was prominent against her black complexion. “It's just the way society is” the older sister replied.

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye begins by thrusting the reader into the cold embrace of human suffrage in the form of Pecola Breedlove, thus dramatically detailing what her life is like whilst launched before the public limelight. The sensation of nakedness is the perception of which Morrison elaborates upon as Pecola is displaced of solitude and all of her human faculties are stored into a cube for the world to refract its scornful eyes against. Furthermore, Morrison delineates Pecola’s suffering as though the human condition itself were an object; rather, one of those sophisticated snow globes that one places on the wooden mantelpiece in order to proclaim the winter season. The tragedy of Pecola Breedlove is that the town emulsifies her world,

Morrison epitomises the Breedlove family to highlight the relationship between racial and sexual oppression. Most notably, Cholly Breedlove oppresses the women in his family subsequent of the racial oppression he suffered during his first sexual experience with a black female, Darlene. The two white male intruders were able to exercise their racial power over Cholly and in that moment, “With a violence born