As I Lay Dying
A good book is one that you cannot quit thinking about. For days after you finish it you will catch yourself daydreaming about it. That is what The Bluest Eye did to me. I can't say that I liked the novel, because I didn't. It left me with an empty horrified feeling in the pit of my stomach; a realization of how harsh the world can be. I believe that this was Toni Morrison's goal for this book. She didn't want me to feel all warm and cozy when I finished. She didn't want me to 'like' The Bluest Eye; She wanted me to learn from it. I learned about a child's understanding, how people can react differently to a harsh environment, the importance of white symbols in a black girls life, and what could possess adults to do horrible things to helpless children. In short, I learned about the world. Claudia narrated most of the book, though the story is mainly about Pecola. Claudia and her sister, Fridea, are, in all visible ways, exactly like Pecola. They are poor, black girls in a world where only white is beautiful and good. The difference is that Claudia and Fridea could still love themselves and Pecola felt that she was worthless because of her black features. It makes sense that Claudia was chosen to tell the story so that she cou
If she was cute--and if anything could be believed, she was--then we were not. They forced them to continue while they watched. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**Works ConsultedGates, Henry Louis, Jr. The most horrible seen in this book is when Cholly comes home drunk from work one day to find Pecola washing dishes. Samuel, Pecola's brother continuously runs away and Pecola prays every night for blue eyes to fix everything. Cholly's tumultuous childhood sowed the seeds of his later inability to be a good father and husband. Her mother, Pauline, hated blackness and she couldn't bring herself to love her black, ugly, daughter.
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