"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, is an adaptation of how oppression emotionally and psychologically impacts a young girl named Pecola. Pecola was oppressed by society, by her community, and by her own family. As a result her reality is subjectively based on the premise that if she could have "blue eyes" she would then be revered by all of her oppressors.
             Throughout the story Pecola appears to be a scapegoat of her oppressors. She is a symbol. A societal symbol that states that being black means: ugly and subhuman. A high toll for a young girl, she eventually succumbs to her oppressors and sadly becomes trapped into her unconscious delusions. This novel illustrates the human cost of oppression and shows that there is only a limit that one can take before they dissipate.
             The dynamic character in the book is a girl named Pecola. In the beginning of the book Pecola was a young black girl growing up in the ghetto of Ohio. She is viewed ugly by the community and her family because she was dark skinned, had a broad nose, thick lips and short coarse hair. Everyone treats her like dirt. Her family consists of two parents and a brother. Her mother was a maid to a prominent white family. The mother appeared to treat the white family very well but when it came to her own family she treated them with disdain, Even her family wants nothing to do. Her father was an unemployed drunkard who would often beat her mother. The brother was always running away from home.
             Throughout the book Pecola was either pitied by her friends or ridiculed for "ugliness" by family and other neighborhood children. As a result Pecola believed unless you had blonde hair and blue eyes your were nothing. The turning point in the story was when she became pregnant at 13 by her father who raped her. When she told her mother, she was beaten and the neighbors all said it was somehow her fault. She then went to a physic and asked for blue eyes. Eventually she went crazy ...