Pecola breedlove

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

Pecola Breedlove: A Dumping Ground for Soaphead and Geraldine Throughout Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, many characters, including Soaphead Church and Geraldine, use Pecola Breedlove to make themselves feel better. Using Pecola as a scapegoat, the other characters justify their shortcomings by comparing themselves to her. When they think about Pecola, the other characters in the book feel superior and thus boost their egos. Soaphead Church uses Pecola to do his dirty work and to feel better about

written by American author and Professor Toni Morrison, works to examine the black experience within the black community, and exploits the relevant issue concerning a young, victimized black girl who is infatuated by white standards of beauty. Pecola Breedlove can be understood through the

attempt to conform to the white standard of beauty. Pecola Breedlove the eleven-year-old African American protagonist of the novel, has been told her entire life that she wasn’t ‘good’ enough, or ‘pretty’ enough by society. “It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held pictures, and knew the sights – if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different” (Morrison 46). Pecola believes that if she had blue eyes not only will

Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is eleven year old, Pecola. In the book, Pecola is ridiculed and abused by many people in her life. She is striped of her self-image throughout the book by the abuse heaped on her by everyone around her. She faces racism on a daily basis from not only white people but also her own African American community. She feels that her skin is ugly and too dark. Based on the color of her skin she feels less than in the eyes of others. Pecola believes she can gain the love and acceptance

In the novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison introduces the reader to both mother and daughter; Pauline and Pecola. Both mother and daughter experience abuse and neglect; Pecola prays for a different trait and her mother Pauline selfishly keeps the beauty of her work to herself because of a nickname given to her. With a name, an identity is from, and with eyes, assumptions take form. Christiane Toledo Maria article shows key points of Toni Morrison’s novel and helps connect the reader with what

In the Autumn section of The Bluest Eye, the reader constantly sees Pecola Breedlove thinking with a low sense of self-esteem and dignity specifically towards her appearance and the way others view her. Taking her ugliness, she begins to compare herself to members of the world around her, in turn beating herself up over it. During the chapter, she approaches Mr. Yacobwski’s candy store and buys three pieces of a candy called “Mary Janes.” For some background, the wrapper of the candy has “A picture

Claudia, a young girl who befriends Pecola. It is evident that there were supporters in Pecola’s life that were both unable and unwilling to help her. One instance in the novel in which hands were unable to help was when Pecola accidentally dropped the blueberry pie. “…the pan tilted under Pecola’s fingers and fell to the floor…she cried out and began hopping about just as Mrs. Breedlove entered with a tightly packed laundry bag. In one gallop she was on Pecola, and with the back of her hand knocked

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

constructed. With its richness of language and boldness of vision, it also recognises the possibility of whiteness used as a standard of beauty and blackness being diminished. Toni Morrison focuses on the black female characters, Pauline and Pecola Breedlove, suffering through the construction of femininity in an ethnicized society. This essay will discuss these two characters as being “absented” from reality, since they are rejected as ugly. I will substantiate this essay by making use of two major