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The Importance Of Motifs In Blue Eye By Toni Morrison

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One motif I have noticed so far is that blue eyes represent the cultural beauty of being white in America. For example, Claudia resents the blue eyes of her white dolls, but Pecola strives to have blue eyes. She believes that is she had blue eyes people would see her with a different perspective and give her the reassurance of being beautiful to the white Americans. Pecola also believes that with blue eyes she would live a carefree life of a white middle class child. Morrison`s purpose is to demonstrate how we depict certain cultures and how we discriminate between white and black people. Throughout the book there is a great amount of detail regarding the lives inside and outside of the homes of black and whites.

Pauline is Pecola’s mother,

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