Bluest Eyes
She was the first black woman to receive a Nobel Prize for literature, Toni Morrison. Born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931, she was the second of four children of George and Ramah Wofford. As a child she escaped from the racist attitudes moving to Ohio. She was raised to be proud of her heritage and background. She grew up in Lorain, Ohio, where she attended school and was the only black student and the only who could read as a first grader. Morrison didn't encounter discrimination until she grew older. Morrison was a very good student and graduated with honors from Lorain High School. Morrison loved the arts as a little girl and hope to become a dancer (Hatcher 1). Morrison attended Howard University where she majored in English. She had to change her name to Toni because people couldn't pronounce her name correctly. After graduating from Howard University with a B.A in English, she attended Cornell University where she received her master degree in 1955. Morrison worked at Texas Southern University teaching introductory English (Hatcher 2). Howard University neglected black culture, but in Texas Southern black heritage was celebrated with Negro history week making her proud. She
returned to Howard University as a faculty member. Pecola eats the candies and she pretends to "be Mary Jane" in her "world of clean comfort" (50). " Gary Blonston of the Detroit Free Press reviews the novel as a "successful work of fiction. Her most recent work was published in 1998 named Paradise (Folwell 3). Her next novel was Jazz published in 1992. She sees some dandelions and wonders "Why do people call them weeds?" when to her "they were pretty" (Morrison 47). Each night "she [constantly] prayed for blue eyes" (46). Morrison speaks to both white and black, showing how a racist social system control down the minds and souls of people, how "dominate images of white heroes and heroines" with blue eyes show young black children that "to be white means" to be successful and happy (Winfrey 1). " Sissman express The Bluest Eyes as a "touching and disturbing picture of the doomed youth of [the author's] race. She divorced her husband and returned home to her parents. Sissman, The New Yorker describes the novel as a "fresh, close look at the lives of terror and decorum of those Negroes who want to get on in a white man's world.
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