Analysis Of The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison

From her parents Morrison learned how to face racism. She uses her novel to describe and show the suffrage of the black people. Morrison's novel highlights and shows the result of the migration from the rural south to the urban north from 1930s to 1950s. The migrants lost their sense of community and identity.

Introdution Quicksand was writen by Nella Larsen in America. First published in 1928 by Knopf to enthusiastic reviews. In a Crisis review educator, called it the best piece of fiction that Negro America has produced since the day of Charles Chesnutt and From the Dark Tower author Davis considered the character of Helga Crane the most intriguing and complex character in Harlem Renaissance fiction. In many ways, this book contributed to African American Writers and considered a critique of a society in which self-expression and autonomy are not allowed, especially for black women. Nella Larsen was born Nellie Walker on April 13, 1891, in Chicago, Illinois, to immigrant parents.

African-American author Toni Morrison 's book, Beloved, describes a black culture born out of a dehumanising period of slavery just after the Civil War. Culture is a means of how a group collectively believe, act, and interact on a daily basis. Those who have studied her work refer to Morrison 's narrative tales as “literature…that addresses the sacred and as an allegorical representation of black experience” (Baker-Fletcher 1993: 2). Although African Americans had a difficult time establishing their own culture during the period of slavery when they were considered less than human, Morrison believes that black culture has been built on the horrors of the past and it is this history that has shaped contemporary black culture in a positive way. Through the use of linguistic devices, her representation of black women, imagery and symbolic features, and the theme of interracial relations, Morrison illustrates that black culture that is resilient, vibrant, independent, and determined.

‘Recitatif’ holds all the quality of a great literature. It is well thought provoking piece of work by Morrison that talks about the taboo topic, racism. Morrison tells the tale of two young girls with a broken home and the suffering they had to go through and the troubles they faced. The writers beautifully sewed it together with the issue of race. Whatever the girls faced throughout their lives was somehow connected by their racial background.

Toni Morrison’s gothic writing surrounds the cold-blooded essence of the south post civil- war. She uses striking vocabulary to reveal the hardships of African Americans in the deep south. Her writing unapologetically real. Morrison has and is continuing to set the path for all southern gothic writers. Toni Morrison is a southern gothic, literary icon who has won countless awards for her work such as Beloved and The Bluest Eye; not only is she revolutionary for women but she is also for all African Americans.

“If there’s book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it” (Toni Morrison). This quote written by Morrison best describes her desire to write books for the African-American community. The Bluest Eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison, it is set in 1941 and centers around the life of a young African-American girl named Pecola. Pecola is constantly called ugly due to her dark skin color as a result, she develops an inferiority complex, which fuels her desire for the blue eyes she considers equal to beauty. In 1987 Toni Morrison published Beloved, a novel set after the American civil war, in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the protagonist Sethe, a former slave has been living with her eighteen-year-old daughter Denver along with a malevolent presence of an abusive ghost that has been hunting their house at 124 Bluestone Road for many years.

The idea that blue eyes are a necessity for beauty has been etched on pecola's head in her whole life "if I looked different beautiful, may be cholly would be different, and Mrs. Breed love too may be they would say, why look at pretty eyed pecola. We mustn't do bad things in front of those pretty eyes "(the bluest eye

3.2 Female Character and Symbolism The Color Purple presents a story of Celie – an African American woman who fights for acceptance and feminine space in her marriage and as well as within her community. She is oppressed by racism and sexism at the same time which means that in the novel there are many scenes in which the dimension of intersectionality is easily noticeable. Confined by the patriarchal stiff rules, Celie gradually begins to make her voice heard. Obviously, it does not happen in the blink of an eye.

Symbolism and authors style and its effect on the plot In literature, authors will often utilize symbolism in order to develop characters and plot. In The Bluest Eye, the author, Toni Morrison portrays an African American girl named Pecola, who is stricken with longing for a better life. As she muddles through her difficult childhood, her once innocent interpretation of race and beauty are deformed by the beauty standards that dominated the mid-20th century society. She believes that beauty is dependent upon love, and her self-image, in particular, her eyes, plays a big role in the novel. She consistently attributes her struggles and failures to her lack of blue eyes, and believes that by having blue eyes, her struggle will go away.

Resistance to oppression is a fluid theme throughout these two works of literature, Angelou in Still I rise, An ode to the power that brews in us all to overcome our most difficult circumstances, and is truly an inspiration to all homestayers in the sixties no matter Their race. “She speaks not only for herself but also for her gender and race. This extension of self occurs in Angelou's autobiographies and protest poetry” (Hagen 118). Her status as being a powerful black woman in the house, portrays her self confidence to override anything that puts her down as she will always exceed to rise up. While on the other hand Susan Rawlings in To Room Nineteen saw suicide as her only outlet to her lack of freedom in her marriage.