Pecola

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

evokes serious ontological questions for the reader, particularly as it relates to Pecola 's position in her community. As a pariah, she operates both at the margins and the center of her community. The sheer horror evoked by her presence in the community forces people to regard her as absent. The community 's regarding Pecola as invisibly present is a defense mechanism that shields it from the lure of decadence that Pecola and her family represent. As a result, the people who glamorize and prolong her

Family Relationships in Morrison's The Bluest Eye “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, is a story about the life of a young black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who is growing up during post World War I. She prays for the bluest eyes, which will “make her beautiful” and in turn make her accepted by her family and peers. The major issue in the book, the idea of ugliness, was the belief that “blackness” was not valuable or beautiful. This view, handed down to them at birth, was a cultural hindrance

but others, to the standards of the white American standards of things such as beauty. The characters, Pecola and Pauline, are the major characters in the novel and are, as written by Morrison (1970), the ciphers of the way African Americans treated each-other and themselves in a time of racial oppression

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

Eye, 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

In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison we see the tragic tale of a girl named Pecola play out and the story is told by a young girl named Claudia. The story is grim and bleak, everything that could go wrong does go wrong. It seems that there is no hope of things getting better, Claudia is the only character who gives us hope that Pecola’s life will get better, but by the end of the novel even she realizes that there is no hope, nothing will get better. Some people believe that if there is

link between the ugliness of Pecola Breedlove and the town she lives in – Lorain. Concerning appearance, Pecola and the town of Lorain are both on the uglier side. While they share certain outward characteristics, Pecola and Lorain are vastly different on the interior. On one side, Pecola Breedlove is constantly put down because of how she appears to be. She is not as attractive as others and the people she meets constantly shut her out because of it. When Pecola was born, her mother even recollects

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

and accident of absolute self-image. In The Bluest Eye Pecola is represented as a pathetic figure who feels that darkness has blighted her to ugliness and neglect. Pecola in The Bluest Eye internalizes the western standards of adorableness beneath the ancestral burden of the ascendant culture life The Bluest Eye is an able announcement of Toni Morrison’s indigenous cultural feminism, an