Racism
The Effects of Racism During the 1940's Racism has been around for hundreds of years. One example of how racism against blacks was rempant during the 1940's is seen in Toni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye.Throughout the story the characters are victims of racism. Not only do these characters suffer from racism from mainstream White society, but also from their superior light-skinned African American people. Examples of the effects of racism on the examining the lives of Pecola, Louis J.r. , and Soaphead Church. The first example of racism, and the most affected character of this horrendous deed known as racism is Pecola Breedlove. Pecola is born to two parents who never felt like they fit in or were loved when they were growing up and still don;t.Pecola's mother, Pauline, only cares about fitting in. When she was young she had dreams and hopes about one day being acceptedbut these dreams die when she injures her foot. Soon after her marriage with Cholly, Pauline looses her front tooth and along with it she looses her sel-respect. After Sammy and Pecola are born, Pauline returns to work and begins working for a white family,The Fishers. Here she finds her self-respect again, because according to them she is the ideal se
Soaphead is already lost in a small extent of insanity himself. Her own mother considered her ugly when she first saw her as a newborn. She wishes and thinks "that if her eyes, those eyes that held pictures, and knew the sights-if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different"(Morrison 40). The tender care of the little White Fisher girl makes the rejection of Pecola more evident. She also gives the reader lessons of how a small form of racism can become a person's destruction. This makes it easier for the school children as well as the community to pick on her and look down on her. According to her the "colored" are superior because they are of light skin. The result of this confusion is that Soaphead Church becomes enclosed in his own melancholic life.
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