The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison narrates The Bluest Eye using different narrative devices. Morrison uses third person omniscient, first person point of view, and dialogue in this novel. Toni Morrison uses a variety of narrative devices because she wants to reach her goal. Her goal is to not cause readers to feel empathy for Pecola but to make readers comprehend the concept of the pressure society in the United States of America puts on minorities. Toni Morrison uses a variety of narrative devices to write this novel because she wants her readers to reassemble it, to think vigorously, to make readers understand the pressure society looms above minorities. Toni Morrison writes about Pauline Breedlove who is the mother of Pecola Breedlove. "White men taking such good care about they women..." (Page 123) Pauline Breedlove begins thinking while she is watching a movie in the theaters. Since movies normally exaggerate on how people behave and how things turn out, they make the characters seem impeccable. Most people that star in the movies back (1940's) then are White people, so to her it seem like White men treat their women wonderfully. Toni Morrison writes in dialogue to show us what Pauline is thinking while she is wa
Morrison uses Claudia to disagree with a lot of people, because she wants to show us how a young black girl (in the 1940's) who disagrees, and who thinks that her own kind is beautiful is looked upon as "incomprehensible". "They go to land grand colleges, normal schools, how to do the white man's work with refinement: home economics to prepare his foods; teacher education to instruct black children in obedience; music to soothe the weary master and entertain his blunted soul. "Frieda and she had a loving conversation about how cu-ute Shirley Temple was. Morrison writes Pecola in the third omniscient. Also Morrison uses Claudia as first person point of view, as the rebel of society in this novel, someone who believes differently that blue eyes and blonde hair is not always beautiful. "White kids; his mother did not want Junior to play with black children. Morrison writes in different narrative styles with Pecola to show her readers that no matter how insane or sane Pecola is, she is always going to feel pressured, influenced to believe she's not beautiful enough because she's dark and have no blue eyes or not blue enough eyes. Morrison writes in third person omniscient to show us that society is so pressuring that it changed a black woman (Junior's mother) to look down upon her own race, to influence her to behave a certain way. Toni Morrison describes a certain type of colored people using third person omniscient. Claudia is the character that Toni Morrison uses to narrate the novel when the novel is in first person point of view. Toni Morrison uses different narrative devices to write this novel because she wants her readers reassemble it, to think vigorously, to make readers have the comprehension about the pressure society looms above the heads of minorities or people who don't have blonde hair or blue eyes. "Them pictures gave me a lot of pleasure, but it made me coming home hard, and looking at Cholly hard.
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