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The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison

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At a young age, we don't seem to understand the difference between money and happiness. Little kids want all the newest toys and technologies but don't know that their parents might be struggling to win the money. Even though we grow up and start to understand more about money, we still want more than what we already have, not appreciating the little things in life like memories. In the book “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, during her childhood, Pecola is both neglected and bullied, symbolizing that in life we might not be socially accepted but we have to be grateful for what we have. In the book we learn about the life of Pecola,and both of her parents. By learning cholly’s story, we learn that he had neither a mother nor a father and lived

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