The White Haired Girl

defined as a quality someone has, that brings pleasure to the senses of others. The true meaning of beauty, however, is very unclear, but it’s often used to describe physical characteristics. In Toni Morrison’s book The Bluest Eye, an African American girl named Claudia MacTeer tries to grasp the concept of beauty as she witnesses tragic situations that happen to Pecola Breedlove, her dark skinned African American friend. Throughout the book, we learn what the different characters think beauty is. Some

me" (44). One night the narrator encounters a red-haired girl standing in the snow without any shoes on, in just a bathrobe. She is clearly distraught and claims that "He doesn't love anyone…his ex-wife, or the one before that…and he doesn't love me" (11). The narrator takes her to the dean's house and thinks that "she is beautiful and she was someone's red-haired daughter, standing in a quadrangle how many miles from home weeping" (10). The girl reminds the narrator of the daughter he once had.

differ. It contradicts the principle, because beauty is no longer just a person’s opinion but beauty has been made into an unwritten rule, a standard made by society for society. The most important rule is that in order to be beautiful, girls have to look just like a white doll, with blue eyes, light pink skin, and have blond hair. And if they’re not, they are not beautiful. Pecola, one of community’s ugly children, lives life each day wanting to

They greeted every person sitting around them, but the Asian girl was more outgoing. Right before the clock hit 3 o’clock, the Asian girl would get up to talk to her other friends scattered around the room, leaving the hot chick typing away on her phone. My guess - after watching them for half of the semester from my seat - was that they had to be

The blond girl was on top of a tower against her her own will. She couldn't kick, scream shout or she would end up dead. Little did she know, death was coming her way, despite whatever choices she would make. A brunette girl was smirking at her, enjoying her piece of art that she had created. She loved the sensation of fear: the begging for the pain to stop, the scared faces they would make and everything that came with it. "P—please, don't kill me," the blond girl begged. "I have money! I'll do

Johnson (Maya). She is portrayed as a mature young girl suffering from the traumatic events associated with being a black female in America. She is said to be a smart and imaginative person. Maya felt that people judge her unfairly due to her awkward appearance. She fantasized that she actually was a blond-haired, blue-eyed girl trapped in a “black ugly dream” and would soon wake up and reveal her true identity. She faced three obstacles in the south white prejudice, black inability, and female subjugation

“Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs - all the world had agreed that a blue eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured. ‘Here,’ they said, ‘this is beautiful, and if you are on this day ‘worthy’ you may have it” (Morrison 20). One day, a new student, named Maureen Peal, arrives at the school Pecola attended. She fit the bill for society’s beauty standards: pampered, light-skinned and a green eyed black girl. “A high-yellow dream child

continued, I began to feel my heart beat rhythmically join in with the sound of the clock. Every 5-10 minutes, the telephone rang. The grey-haired, old lady with the appealing voice and welcoming smile was first to pick up every time. A family of three entered the automatic sliding doors, a father and his two young daughters. Straight away the two little girls ran to the play area, brimming with dolls and toy cars and pieces of Lego. As the time moved on, at a snail’s pace, more and more patients

After hearing that I was going to Sweden, the first thing I searched up were the Swedish girls. Every image that popped up was a pale tall girl with light blonde hair, but the real image that I saw was nothing compared to that. In the Swedish airport there was a lot of dark haired people which was very strange to me because I thought they would all have very light hair. On the other hand, every other family would have a blonde hair child which I thought that it was very normal. Shockingly, when

The Truth Behind Snow White Everyone loves a good fairytale, and nothing is quite as magical and heartwarming as a Disney fairytale. The themes of love, comedy, and morality deem them as more than just little kids' stories, but suitable and entertaining tales for the entire family. This is known by a majority of the stories' readers. However, what one may not be so familiar with is the origin of these tales. Where did the stories of Cinderella, Ariel, and Rapunzel come from? The Disney writers