The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison

If Louis XIV had been proven not guilty, then why would there be huguenots be protesting against the “Gift of God”. After controlling the nobility he had been reducing their power and watching for rivals, also he had been abusing power that wasn't supposed to be used for himself (http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/sunking.htm). I find Louis XIV proven guilty for abusing his power and reducing it for the nobility, He also viewed himself and was an absolute power of monarchy (http://www.history.com/topics/louis-xiv). For Period of declines the King Louis had been preventing and taking the right of huguenots also known as protestants of them being able to worship the Edict of Nantes.

Racist ideology is institutionalized when how people’s interactions reflects on an understanding that they share the same beliefs. However, in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, the topic of racism is approached in a very unique way. The characters within the novel are subjected to internalizing a set of beliefs that are extremely fragmented. In accepting white standards of beauty, the community compromises their children’s upbringing, their economic means, and social standings. Proving furthermore that the novel has more to do with these factors than actual ethnicity at all.

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 is an African-American writer. She is known to write stories that have important languages and messages. Particularly, her work, “The Bluest Eye”, which was written during the mid-1900s’, Morrison conveys the message that black wasn’t always beautiful. During that time period the black power movement was just beginning and it influenced many writers. These writers begun to write in “very powerful, aggressive, revolutionary fiction or nonfiction” and had “positive racially uplifting rhetoric” concerning the black community. Toni Morrison felt as though these writers were skipping over a very important time, when black wasn’t beautiful.

In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison shows that anger is healthy and that it is not something to be feared; those who are not able to get angry are the ones who suffer the most.  She criticizes Cholly, Polly, Claudia, Soaphead Church, the Mobile Girls, and Pecola because these blacks in her story wrongly place their anger on themselves, their own race, their family, or even God, instead of being angry at those they should have been angry at: whites.

Being able to empathize with other’s situations is one of the most important qualities in life. In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, it is difficult to empathize with the evil actions of Cholly and the self-loathing of Pauline; however, each of their life stories helps to provide an explanation of how they became the people to harness such hatred and anger. Pauline’s realization of her own ugliness began as a child when her limp foot separated her from the beauty of the world. Cholly’s abandonment and encounter with the two white hunters creates a sense of humiliation and anger that he carries throughout the rest of his life. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison includes the background stories of both Pauline and Cholly Breedlove in order to illustrate both characters’ ongoing struggles with racial self-loathing that led to their current states of loneliness and hatred.

The false sense of dependence from technology causes people to lose sense of their humanity because it diminishes the skill of face-to-face communication that people need in life. Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, was not a frequent user of technology like many kids in America are today. This was before cell phones came out, so instead of kids sitting around playing games on their phones all day, kids like holden actually had to go out and find something to do. Holden may have not had the best communication skills, but he got to work on them. Holden would strike up a conversation with all of his taxi drivers, with random girls in a bar, with old friends, random parents, and anybody that he could.

In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses the oppression of blacks and the praising of whites to demonstrate the unjustified power and influence of the dominant individuals. Within American society, the dominant races rise to power and exert their influence by building an environment that worships whiteness and devalues blackness, creating powerless and powerful communities.

“Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is a novel about racism, yet there are relatively few instances of direct oppression. The Bluest Eye presents a more complicated portrait of racism. The characters are subject to an internalized set of values, which creates its own cycle of victimization. Morrison’s novel highlights how cultural ideals based on skin colour and physical features function as tools of racial oppression. For all races and for all individuals, it is critical to fully understand how society influences our values and beliefs. The focal character, Pecola, is victimized by a society that conditions her to believe that she is ugly and therefore worthless, because she doesn’t epitomize white

“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, is a story about the life of a young black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who is growing up during post World War I. She prays for the bluest eyes, which will “make her beautiful” and in turn make her accepted by her family and peers. The major issue in the book, the idea of ugliness, was the belief that “blackness” was not valuable or beautiful. This view, handed down to them at birth, was a cultural hindrance to the black race.

Through the dynamic characters and character experiences that occur within the book, Toni Morrison is able to illustrate a racist America where society reinforces the idea that the white race is superior. Colored characters are taught by society that their own race is subordinate and that they are not worthy of the same amount of respect as their superiors. These characters continue to teach this idea within their race and create an ideology that even within the same race appearance decides whether or not a person is worthy. This instills the idea of self-hatred and the longing to be a blue eyed middle class person. Characters associate the white and blue eyes with that of economic stability and self-worth.

Slavery, segregation, and discrimination are commonly viewed as some of the primary struggles African Americans contended with. However, in Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eyes, it reveals struggles not commonly discussed about, such as internalized racism within black society and the internal conflict with one’s own blackness. Throughout the novel, characters repeatedly try to consume whiteness as a mean to escape their own blackness. They submerge themselves with the notion that the white, Eurocentric culture is the superior culture, and being white means being beautiful and powerful. In doing so, they gradually disconnect and disassociate themselves from their own African American heritage.

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

The Bluest Eyes is a masterfully told narrative on the lives of African Americans in the 1940’s; Toni Morrison examines both the social system and mentality of the racism by using both children perspectives and childhood flashbacks to invoke a feeling of sympathy for the characters in the novel. Morrison novel attempts to demystify the underlying culture problems black women face in segregated culture. Instead of attempting to analyze all the facets; instead, Morrison’s uses the simplistic and unbiased perspective of children to elucidate African American culture. Children perceive events through an unclouded lens; this allows the reader a glimpse into a world that they would be isolated from by adult narrator.

Toni Morrison is a truly extraordinary woman. She is the first African-American woman writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is considered as one of the greatest modern female writers to exert a major influence on African American literature. Especially, she has created black female characters through a unique writing style and various symbols in her novels. Through Morrison’s works, she describes black women in America have been victimized by race, gender and class. They are ignored by not only white men, but also their own husband or same race. The Bluest eye (1970) is the one of the most outstanding novels to express inferiority complex of black women about the standard of beauty made by white and destructive effect of losing their identity in Black community. This paper is going to analyze two female