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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 immoral acts of society raped Pecola Breedlove, took her innocence, and left her to go insane. The Random House Dictionary defines “rape” as “an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation.” The Random House definition perfectly describes what happens to Pecola over the course of the novel. From Pecola’s standpoint, society rapes her repeatedly, by their judgmental attitudes towards everything that she is; she is “ugly,” she is poor, she is black. In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Morrison shines a critical light on society, illumining the immoral acts that it participates in, through the story of how a little girl is thrown by the wayside since she does not embody the societal ideal. Instead of one human

In the third chapter of The Bluest Eye, entitled "Autumn", Toni Morrison focuses on Pecola's family, the Breedloves. Morrison goes in depth about the family dynamic of the Breedloves and how it affects Pecola and her self-image. The passage starts after one of many arguments between Cholly and Mrs. Breedlove, Pecola's parents, turns violent. Mrs. Breedlove wants Cholly to fetch some coal from the outside shed. Cholly spent the last night drinking and does not want to get out of bed. The passage begins with the children becoming aware of the argument. Mrs. Breedlove starts to hit him with cooking pans while Cholly mostly used his feet and teeth. After the fight is over Mrs. Breedlove just lets Cholly lie on the ground and she goes about her

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.

Sexual assault is a sensitive subject when it comes to most people. No one can tell whether the person they come across has been sexually assaulted before. There are signs to indicate such events like withdrawing from normal activities, or feeling “down”, low self-esteem, anxiety or worry about situations that did not seem to cause anxiety in the past, avoiding specific situations or place, etc. Sexual assault is never an easy bridge to cross and the road to recovery is never an easy route. In the “Bluest Eye” written by Toni Morrison, it tells a story in the narrative of Claudia MacTeer. She tells the story of childhood memories about what happened to Pecola through season and the influential characters and events that shape Pecola's life. Pecola was an adolescent who felt her black beauty wasn’t enough and dreamed of having blue eyes. In the story, she was raped by her drunk father when she was eleven years old. She then had to give birth to her father’s baby which didn’t make it. It took Morrison many efforts to publish this book because of its controversial subjects. In an interview Morrison had in 2001 discussing “The Bluest Eye”and her other books, she told the interviewer “I had sent to I think 12 or 14 publishers before someone was interested enough to take it.” Not only was the book on incest but it was also on prostitution, racism, and child molestion.

In the novel The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison confirms the existence of racism within the African American community. Unbelievably, many African Americans suffer from what is termed internalized racism. Internalized racism produces the same effect as racial racism: feelings of worthlessness, inferiority, and unattractiveness. In addition, the effect can produce the opposite feelings: superiority, hatred, and feelings of self-worth. Pecola, an 11-year-old black girl, desires to have the physical characteristics of a white person, namely blue eyes. Polly, Pecola’s mother, prefers the white culture living rather than her own. The feelings that the black race experience stem from the programming of a racist society to think that the white race is better. As a result, African Americans long to be white or look white. This consumption of whiteness represents internalized racism.

Finding a self-identity is often a sign of maturing and growing up. This becomes the main issue in Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eyes. Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, and Pauline Breedlove are such characters that search for their identity through others that has influenced them and by the lifestyles that they have. First, Pecola Breedlove struggles to get accepted into society due to the beauty factor that the norm has. Cholly Breedlove, her father, is a drunk who has problems that he takes out of Pecola sexually and Pauline physically. Pauline is Cholly’s wife that is never there for her daughters.

Censorship of literary works denies students the right to evaluate different concepts that help them establish a better sense of the world around them. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is a story about a young, African American girl named Pecola, who believes the only way she can ever be deemed beautiful is if she has blue eyes and white skin. Pecola throughout the novel struggles with the constant abuse her parents inflict on each other, being the poster child of what is viewed as ugly, and a brother who is always fleeing from home. Later in the story she is raped by her drunk and deeply disturbed father. Her neighbors shun her after they find out she is pregnant with his child. At the end of the novel Pecola visits a mystic, who falsely grants

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.

The Girl Who Gets Abused: In The Bluest Eye In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye the author displays the impact of cycle of abuse towards innocent females such as Pecola Breedlove. Much time the abusers create a pattern of abuse and therefor a lot times there close to the victim as in they know the victim either they could be a dad, grandparent, mom or even a cousin. Pecola Breedlove is the main character of this novel.

The rape of Pecola is a tragic occurrence. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison focuses heavily on the topic of her rape. Morrison shows how the rape has affected Pecola by creating a powerful and compelling tale, allowing the reader to connect with Pecola and better empathize with her. Morrison’s stylistic choices and use of powerful language make her story even more commanding and eye-catching and further the reader’s understanding of Pecola’s misery and their sympathy towards her.

The novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison is subjected on a young girl, Pecola Breedlove and her experiences growing up in a poor black family. The life depicted is one of poverty, ridicule, and dissatisfaction of self. Pecola feels ugly because of her social status as a poor young black girl and longs to have blue eyes, the pinnacle of beauty and worth. Throughout the book, Morrison touches on controversial subjects, such as the depicting of Pecola's father raping her, Mrs. Breedlove's sexual feelings toward her husband, and Pecola's menstruation. The book's content is controversial on many levels and it has bred conflict among its readers.

Throughout Toni Morrison’s controversial debut The Bluest Eye, several characters are entangled with the extremes of human cruelty and desire. A once innocent Pecola arguably receives the most appalling treatment, as not only is she exposed to unrelenting racism and severe domestic abuse, she is also raped and impregnated by her own father, Cholly. By all accounts, Cholly should be detestable and unworthy of any kind of sympathy. However, over the course of the novel, as Cholly’s character and life are slowly brought into the light and out of the self-hatred veil, the reader comes to partially understand why Cholly did what he did and what really drives him. By painting this severely flawed yet completely human picture of Cholly,

Pecola was an Eleven year old black girl who feels as if being white is the true meaning of beauty to society and to herself. The Title of this Novel is ‘The Bluest Eye’ written by Toni Morrison in the African American Literature, The novel's focus, however, was on a young girl named Pecola Breedlove. And Pecola, as we are told in Chapter 11,will be raped by her father around the novel's end. The beginning states the story so that the reader can know about Pecola's story ending tragic. The Breedloves were unhappy, and poor. Their story had seemed in many ways to be settled, as they were often the victims of events of which they have no control over. Their situation was a huge contrast to the MacTeers, who were of the slender means but had

     In the novel, The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison incorporates various techniques, such as her use of metaphors, the ironic use of names, and the visual images that she uses. The theme of The Bluest Eye, revolves around African Americans’ conformity to white standards. A woman may whiten her skin, straighten her hair and change its color, but she can not change the color of her eyes. The desire to transform one’s identity, itself becomes an inverted desire, becomes the desire for blues eye, which is the symptom of Pecola’s instability.