Through her book, The Bluest Eye, Tony Morrison shows an extreme example, to the black community and to the world, how societies racist and false beliefs on beauty and selfworth can do serious harm if believed and taken to heart. What better character to show these reprocussions than Pecola Breedlove, a passive and impressionable little girlwho lacking self esteem and parental guidance, buys into it all hook line and sinker and believes herself to be one of the blackest ugliest girls ever. Morrison uses Pecola and the characters in pecolas life to explore the dangers involved for the black community and all communities alike to buy into the idea that white, and only white was beautiful. These social standards produced by the media and white peoples views at the time were idiodic and biased, yet where fairly universal in america at that time. These social standards were unneccesarily hurting people, and Morrison wanted to show the suffering that can arise from buying into those beliefs.(Borey)
             Morrison tells that she got the creative inspiration for the Bluest Eye from a classmate she had in emelentary school. The girl wished for blue eyes, and morrison saw that in wishing for blue eyes she was wishing for a different identity other than black. She was unhappy with who she was and it made morrison think about beauty and how this girl had come to feel inferior. She wanted to dig into the iner workings of how someone could come to believe that their race of people were not beautiful, or only beautiful if they resembled whites, because only whites were beautiful. She wanted to get to the truth, about about beuaty, our society and our world. She wanted to get down to the reasons why people could buy into a lie that they are not beautiful if they are not white. To get to the reasons why people would play a role in oppressing themselves.
             The story is centered around a little girl named Pecola Breedlove, who comes from a poor, troubled h...