Category: The Bluest Eye

As Flannery OConnor says in her essay on The Nature and Aim of Fiction, the novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every detail for a reason , every incident for a reason, and arranges them in a certain time- sequence for a…

In numerous cultures, there is an ideal beauty that most people attempt to acquire. However, imagine a scenario in which beauty were impossible to grasp and there were nothing one could do to be beautiful. In the novel the Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison recounts the story of a powerless girl struggling to prosper against the…

ABSTRACT Any literature written in the United States or the original colonies is part of what is today considered American Literature. The variety of cultures that were welcomed into America gave way to a fantastic diversity in the types of literature it spawned. From the 1500s to today, America has delivered some of the finest…

In the novel, The Bluest Eye , is about partiality, yet there are commonly a couple of case of mental maltreatment from relatives and the community. The characters in the novel are liable to a hidden game plan of characteristics which makes its own one of a kind cycle of abuse. It seems to demonstrate…

According to Zlogar, The Bluest Eye opens and closes with Claudia MacTeers reflection on the meaning and significance of a little girls suffering and her communitys responsibility and obligation to her (The Bluest Eye 188). According to Zlogar, Dark-skinned Claudia values herself more than the world does (The Bluest Eye 188). According to Zlogar, Using…

Introduction to Pecola’s World The Bluest Eye begins with a brief story about Dick and Jane. The story repeated three times to make sure the readers aware that the line of the story will be the heading of every chapter. The Bluest Eye presents Claudia MacTeer is the narrator of the story. She and her…

Books are banned or considered controversial for many reasons. A major reason some create controversy is the sexuality within the writing. Though, the definition of sexuality is sexual interest and attraction to others, the way the term sexuality will be viewed in this paper is specifically related to women and how they are sexually abused,…

Each of the two texts, This One Summer by Julian and Mariko Tamaki, and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison discuss common Incidences which happen in everyday Lives of teenagers such as Jealousy, problems caused by social standards which these girls just cant seem to meet. In addition, both these texts portray the agony and…