Pecola

of a Eurocentric dominated world. Some of these involve encounters with actual people, as when white furniture movers refuse to take back the Breedlove’s torn couch, or when a white candy store owner displays his contemptuous indifference towards Pecola because she’s black. In the novel,Morrison looks deeply into the personality of her characters, exploring the insidious ability of white supremacy to ambush the black psyche, ultimately crippling what we now call our self-esteem. The novel’s primary

Unlike so many pieces of American literature that involve and examine the history of slavery and the years of intensely-entrenched racism that ensued, the overall plot of the novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, does not necessarily involve slavery directly, but rather examines the aftermath by delving into African-American self-hatred. Nearly all of the main characters in The Bluest Eye who are African American are dominated with the endless culturally-imposed concepts of white beauty and cleanness

experiences they had with the choices their own mothers had to make, they now must choose between sacrificing the ones they love, or the life which they have always dreamed. To begin, in The Bluest Eyes, Pauline’s daughter Pecola is reaching for the blackberry pie juice that is piping hot. Pecola wants to help her mother by moving the boiling juice to an area that will let it cool faster. She hopes that by doing this task, she will gain her mother’s acceptance.While doing this, the bowl slips out of Pecola’s

shown when Maureen says to Claudia and Frieda “I am cute, you ugly” Morrison (Page number). Her condescending tone highlights how she establishes her importance over other black children simply because she is further along the spectrum to being white. Pecola perhaps takes this idea of whiteness being the ultimate beauty too strongly and suffers psychological trauma as a result. “The girls hand’s covering her mouth she backed away

“fear of life” (100). Pauline has always despised her daughter, when she sees Pecola just after her birth, she remarks: “Head full of pretty hair but Lord she was ugly” (98). But she (Pauline) cares for the infant she takes care of then feels ashamed of her child and abuses her, like attacking her when she unintentionally spills a blueberry pie at the Fishers. Pauline fails utterly as a mother when she distrusts Pecola’s account of the first time her father rapes her. Her disbelief prevents her from

that she also began writing about the minimization of black culture and the effects of slavery of African-American citizens. This is a topic this is heavily addressed in Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye. Morrison’s novel focuses on the character of Pecola, a young black girl who comes from a very abusive family who demean and undermine her confidence in herself. The novel deals with issues such as abandonment and identity with the central character longing to change her appearance so that she may be

church treating black people the way he does.Society influenced these two characters to think differently of the black race and white race rather than to just appreciate who they are already. A big character in the story also comes down to Pecola.Now,Pecola probably had one of the harshest pasts.She

Many characters in the novel, most frequently, Pecola, express feelings of being disregarded and invisible when interacting or in the vicinity of white people. In the passage about the Breedlove’s living situation, they are described as living in “anonymous” misery. The fact that they paradoxically live

(Morrison) What would you expect from a girl trying to fit it in a society that has inconsiderable beauty standards most of which she does not poses? Toni Morrison tells a tragic tale of a black girl Pecola Breedlove living in a white-dominated society in the period after the great depression. Pecola innocently longs to be accepted in this world. However, she is subject to scrutiny on every possible instance even from her own family. The poor girl has to cope with verbal and physical abuse both at

Toni Morrison uses her novels to demonstrate how black women must be able to rely on other women in their community. The Bluest Eye shows how severely Pecola was damaged when her community shunned her. Beloved discusses both the suffering caused when Sethe’s community failed to warn her about Schoolteacher and how the women worked together to banish Beloved. After Cee is saved from the doctor in Home, she needs to rely on the care of women in her community in order to heal. Clearly, there is a common