Analysis of Toni Morrison's
Toni Morrison’s premier novel, The Bluest Eye, is a tale of one girl’s battle against herself and the society surrounding her. The author tells the story of young Pecola Breedlove growing up with a vast amount of hatred around her in order to display the impact society has on people. Society pressures the ugly to be beautiful, and a little black girl to pray nightly for two bright, blue eyes to replace the dullness of her own brown ones. The blue eyes Pecola dream for obviously represents her wish to be white. Blue eyes are associated with beauty and only the fair-skinned can obtain this eye color. Being a black girl in the 1940’s is an automatic shun in society when this books takes place. Not to mention the Breedlove family consists of Pecola’s father Cholly Breedlove (whom eventually rapes and impregnates her), an unloving mother named Pauline, and a juvenile delinquent brother named Sammy. Pecola’s family is part of the reason she becomes a social outcast, even though the poor girl has actually never done one thing against her little town. Morrison shows the way the general public can be bias towards an individual they may have never even talked to just because of family issues, their race
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Mary Janes, Sammy Pecolas, Pecola Breedlove, Church Pecola, Morrison Pecolas, Bluest Eye, Shirley Temple, Nevertheless Morrisons, Eye Morrison, Cholly Breedlove, blue eyes, bluest eye, black girl, pecola breedlove, people happy, morrison toni, mary janes,
Approximate Word count = 938
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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