The Bluest Eye

             Many novels are put out as a way of the author's expression towards past events that have happened to them and they use characters to discuss their feelings and emotions at that time. In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrision she describes through a small black girl, Pecola Breedlove, the struggle of African Americans by our "white" American Society. She is seen as a black "animal" with dark eyes, which makes her ugly in order of society, this causes a lot of conflict throughout the book. Toni Morrision's writing style throughout the book was very prominent; she used many themes that would reflect her feelings on the pain and tragic suffering that she went through when she was a young black girl in a white society.
             Toni Morrison's writing style can be seen right away from the title of the book, The Bluest Eye. From just this we can tell the book is about beauty and someone who is very beautiful. However Pecola tries to be accepted by society, and is shut down because she is ugly due to her brown eyes. As Americans we see blonde hair and blue eyes as the standard form of beauty, and that is the dominant race; on the other hand Pecola is beautiful it's just that society will not let her true beauty shine through because she is a small black girl with dark eyes. We can see Pecola reaching out to society wanting to have these blue eyes to be loved and beautiful. On Page 46 Pecola makes a powerful quote saying
             "- if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different."..... "If she looked different, beautiful, maybe Cholly would be different, and Mrs. Breedlove too. Maybe they'd say, "Why, look at pretty-eyed Pecola. We mustn't do bad things in front of those pretty eyes."
             Pecola here feels that if she could only be seen with blue eyes, her true beauty would shine and she could be respected throughout society. However even if she had those blue eyes that she had desired so much, she would still re...

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