preview

Theme Of Blue Color In To Kill A Mockingbird

Decent Essays
Open Document

While blue color is the way the whites conceptualize their beauty and their standards. The idea of the easy seems to be the central one as many personages have their personal ideas despite generalized, humiliating, discriminating standards of culture accepted by the whites and accepted by the blacks. Mr. Jakubowski’s is not able to see the color of Pecola’s eyes, because he refuses to look at her. This illustrates not only how he view her but rather his ability to watch a person from some different perspective without racial prejudice. Cholly, Henry, and Sir Whitcomb (Soaphead) are all attracted to young girls. This connection shows racism and early experience with sex and destroys their family and lives. Susan N. Mayberry responded to treatment of Morrisons male’s characters "Morrison deliberately places her black male characters into situations where their behavior becomes virtually unredeemable, yet she simultaneously urges us to forgive them" (13). …show more content…

This is a difference between superficial and real and concern is presented in the title of the novel. A superlative concept of the bluest eye is an artificial concept, but it is way the whites create their vision of life. They consider themselves as somehow superior, though it is not possible as well as the superlatives of the color. However, it is different but not better than something dark as brown or black is. All the people are equal and indifferent due to their physical characteristics, having their special and exceptional beauty, without racial

Get Access