"The Bluest Eye"

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The paper relates the story of "The Bluest Eye" about Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl who is unhappy with her life and the way she looks. The paper portrays how, throughout the book, Pecola strongly believes that if she can only have blue eyes, she will become beautiful and all her problems will go away. The paper shows how her life is tragic because she cannot see the beauty in herself. The paper emphasizes the moral of the story; beauty is on the inside, not on the outside and concludes that this is an important lesson for everyone to learn.

From the Paper:

"The narrator of the book is Claudia MacTeer. Her family takes in Pecola as a foster child, and they come to care for her. Claudia has an older sister named Frieda, and the three girls grow up together. Pecola is the main character of the story, even though she is not the narrator, because she is the one most affected by race, hatred, and her own idea of ugliness. Near the start of the book, Morrison writes about the Breedlove's "home," a bleak storefront, "They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly" (Morrison 28). Pecola believes from a very young age that she is ugly and white skin, blue eyes, and blonde hair is beautiful. That is why she wants blue eyes throughout the book."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Author not Available. "Toni Morrison." Western Washington University. 1995. 3 Nov. 2006.<http://www.az.com/~andrade/morrison/start.html>
• Bloom, Harold, ed. Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1999.
• Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Jazz. New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998.
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• Stanford, Ann Folwell. "The Bluest Eye." New York University. 8 May 2006. 3 Nov. 2006.<http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=1086>

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