Pecola breedlove

Morrison, displays multiple interpretations of love. Morrison’s main character, Pecola Breedlove an eleven year old African American girl, displays the best example of love because she unselfishly took on the burdens of her family, friends and society. This burden makes her feel ugly; so she wishes to change her outward appearance, specifically her blue eyes, and wants to change the world around her. Pecola Breedlove naturally craves for acceptance, love and protection from her family, friends and

Mrs. Breedlove had with Pecola. Morrison uses symbolism when she writes “We could hear Mrs. Breedlove hushing and soothing the tears of the little pink-and-yellow girl” (Morrison 109). This shows the difference in the way Pecola was treated compared to the little girl. The little girl represents how beauty can influence people to be friendlier because the little girl is assumed to be prettier than Pecola. Mrs. Breedlove disliked Pecola because she was insulting her for something that Pecola didn’t

The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl with dark brown eyes, is deemed ugly. Although she does not possess ugliness; she “put it on, so to speak, although it did not belong to [her]” (Morrison 38). Pecola believes she is ugly because she does not meet the societal beauty standard. Pecola convinces herself that all her struggles are rooted in the fact that she not beautiful. If Pecola was white, blond, and blue-eyed her life would be different—it would be better. Pecola believes that having

community. In this novel, characters begin to internalize the racism presented by these people, and feel inferior. The stereotype torments them mentally, and in some cases, to the point of insanity. The character most affected by racism is Pecola Breedlove. Pecola Breedlove’s character is defined by several different types of racism. It is present in her family, especially

to grow and survive and inhibits Pecola from doing the same. It is a novel of initiation concerning a victimized adolescent Black girl Pecola Breedlove, who is obsessed by the White standard of beauty and longing fora pair of blue eyes. Why does she long for blue eyes? Because she thinks that getting blue eyes means to become beautiful, to get rid of all miseries of life, which she has suffered. Though she is raped by her father

Pecola cannot fly and will never fly, since only through self-acceptance could her soul soar. Morrison clearly states that an individual or community identity cannot be acquired as long as those individuals and communities acquiesce in and conform to the oppressive definitions of the mainstream culture. The Bluest Eye is one of the finest pieces of English literature. This masterpiece is written by Toni Morrison. Here in this novel The Breedlove family has shown the individual identity and perception

examines the effect of different mothers on their respective children through the characters of Mrs. MacTeer and Mrs. Breedlove. Throughout the novel, both characters express their thoughts and feelings through words, with Mrs. MacTeer having a few fussy soliloquies and Mrs. Breedlove having a few interior monologues to get their points across. Although Mrs. MacTeer and Mrs. Breedlove are two entirely different individuals, their respective fussy soliloquies and interior monologues greatly reflect one

lives of the Breedlove and MacTeer families. Pecola Breedlove, who is exceptionally ugly, is raised by her perpetually inebriated father, Cholly, and habitually irritated mother, Pauline. Her parents are abusive physically and mentally to each other as well as Pecola. As a result, Pecola is a self-conscious girl who believes that white skin and blue eyes are the only way to be beautiful. Pecola moves in with the MacTeer family for a short while and befriends Freida and Claudia. When Pecola moves back

also a natural response people have to it” (Dutton, 1985). “The Bluest Eye provides an extended depiction of the ways in which internalized white beauty standards deform the lives of black girls and women” Morrison narrates the struggles of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven year

a young black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who searches for love and acceptance in a world that underrates people of her own race. Pecola hopelessly longs to possess the traditional American standards of feminine beauty—white skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes—as presented to her by the popular icons of the white culture. The Bluest Eye is portrayed as a powerful expression of Toni Morrison’s ethnic cultural feminism, impotence, and loss of positive self-image represented by Pecola who feels that blackness