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    throughout this story. Each theme and conflict seems to always involve the character of Pecola Breedlove. There is the theme of finding an identity. There is also the theme of Pecola as a victim. Of all the characters in the story we can definitely sympathize with Pecola because of the many harsh circumstances she has had to go through in her lifetime. Perhaps her rape was the most tragic and dramatic experience Pecola had experiences, but nonetheless she continued her life. She eliminates her sense of

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    understanding of personal satisfaction with who you are and the choices you make. For example, as we are first introduced to Pecola. We find that she moves into the Macteer 's house hold because her father is in jail for setting her house on fire. As she lives in this house hold, she falls in love with Shirley temple. This was the standard of beauty for young girls at the time. Pecola love to drink milk out of her Shirley Temple mug. I believe that Morrison added this detail to the story to symbolize her

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    The Bluest Eye, the character Pecola Breedlove internalizes her discrimination due to her skin color and her family reputation. By the end of the novel, she is shunned by the community, and she has no choice but to be her own friend. Pecola is raped by her father, which causes her to personify her doubts in an attempt to obtain compliments for her blue eyes, as she subconsciously avoids rejection by her community. According to the society in which she lives, when Pecola is raped by her father, the

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    figures. Throughout the novel The Bluest Eye, Pecola and the other children, Frieda and Claudia are desperately seeking the approval of their parents. However not getting the love and approval that they are seeking out leads to a sense of hopelessness from all of the girls, and in Pecola’s case, insanity. This hopelessness experienced by Pecola is very similar to the hopelessness of the bird in Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird.” Both the caged bird and Pecola are longing for something that is essentially

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    Cycle Of Abuse

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    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. Once the abuser attacks then the person who gets attacked, may even become the victimizer. The

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    model. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is about a young girl named Pecola, who is obsessed with blue eyes because she is insecure about hers. The novel points out how beauty can shatter the mind of an innocent young girl, Pecola, for instance, who has been abused by mostly everyone about her looks. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison explains how beauty can ruin lower one’s self-esteem, cause one to become self-obsessed, and how it made Pecola a representative to others to be thankful for the body they have

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    and low self-esteem. Each struggle exemplifies the concept of being black within a black world, and blackness in a predominately white world. The author achieves this by using multiple comparisons of various other characters that sympathize with Pecola, except they have a different experience in life. This novel was inscribed from a child and an adult’s perspective which helps portray both worlds that exist; a never-ending theme of broken identities. How can two people that are still broken and

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    Pecola Breedlove is one of the main characters in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes. Pecola is a young black girl growing up in the 1940s, in northern Ohio, a dominantly white world. She idolizes the young, white movie actress Shirley Temple and wants to be like her. Pecola never realizes how unattainable this dream is and the hardships she faces makes it even more impossible. Some of the hardships Pecola faces in her life include being bullied at school, an unstable home life, and the feeling of

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    Abuse In The Bluest Eye

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    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

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    forth identity issues, especially women. In The bluest Eye by Toni Morrison the main character is a young girl named Pecola Breedlove, growing up in Lorain, Ohio, after the great depression. Nine year old Claudia MacTeer and her ten year old sister Frieda are also main characters. The MacTeers take in Pecola, and the young girls build a relationship with one another. Pecola had a difficult life at home with her own family, and even at school she is teased. She is a loner not by choice, but because

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