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Tyler Johnston Mrs.Norment Senior English October 26th, 2015 In the novel, “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, the significance of the book’s title is based off Pecola’s desire for blue eyes, and acts as a metaphor for society’s standards on beauty and on the impact it made on her, as well as acting as a symbol for false hopes and the struggles of accepting and being happy with your self-identity. To begin, Pecola throughout the book has desired for something that will help

However, as the incidents go on, Pecola is turned instead into a mad little girl. Being raped by her father and becoming pregnant has destroyed all her hopes of becoming beautiful in the eyes of her society. She is totally ruined after this accident that she has become crazy. Thus, this is the life of a little black girl who is the victim of a white-dominated culture that has set the standards of beauty regardless of anything. Cholly Breedlove is one of the major characters who helps to

Storm kyhlee young August-21-2017 Mr.Purvis pd 4 On November 9th 2209. A child was born with something nothing the world has never seen before. It was a baby girl with magnificent powers, and her name is storm. As a child she was normal no where close to being normal. Once she turned five she had noticed something when she cried it rained. Some people say its was just a coincidence. By the age nine she noticed something else she could blow like the wind, then finally at the age seventeen she had

All through all of history there has been a perfect wonder that most have attempted to get. In any case, imagine a scenario in which that excellence was difficult to get a handle on in light of the fact that something was keeping one down. There was nothing one could do to be 'delightful'. Growing up and being persuaded that one was monstrous, pointless, and messy. For Pecola Breedlove, this condition of aching was reality. Blue eyes, blonde hair, and pale white skin was the meaning of magnificence

In the novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Morrison details the life of a young African American girl named Pecola who grows in Lorain, Ohio in the years following the Great Depression. The book’s purpose is to explain how and why Cholly Breedlove, Pecola’s father, came to molest his own daughter. An alcoholic and barbaric, Cholly's baleful and belligerent behavior is a reflection of his troublesome upbringing as a child. While only four days old, Cholly’s parents abandon him, leaving Aunt Jimmy

In today’s society, we have fallen under the curse that allows us to project our own problems and insecurities onto those who aren’t strong enough to have faith in themselves. We tend to use these people to cleanse ourselves from our own precarious self-images. The life of Pecola Breedlove is an example of this. In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, twelve-year-old Pecola’s weakness reflects her maltreatment in society.  This is noticeable by exposing the societal standards of beauty,and how they detrimentally

The first piece in my portfolio is a piece of Pecola with blue eyes. One of the overarching ideas presented throughout The Bluest Eye is that white features, specifically blue eyes, is the epitome of physical beauty. Throughout the book, there is vivid visual imagery of blue eyes such as those of “lovely Mary Jane” (Morrison 50). The use of the word lovely further correlates her physical appearance and blue eyes with beauty. This causes Pecola to crave blue eyes so desperately that “every night,

In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye it can be said that Pecola has endured a similar fate. She too has been raped, but by her father. Pecola has no friends and is abused in some way or another by every other character in the novel. She constantly believes she is ugly and wishes that she had blue eyes as she believes this would make her more beautiful. Pecola goes on to lose her child and eventually becomes insane. In this text we find patriarchal violence and dominationin that Pecola endures two traumatic

The name of the book is called the Bluest Eye. One of the important parts in the book is when pecola's father burns their house down. This was an important part because Pecola's foster sisters would have never stuck up for her and show she is not alone. Lastly, Pecola would have never gone through more pain she already has gone through when she moved into a foster home. Next, I will be supporting my arguments. Pecola's father burnt their house down since he is an alcoholic. The book would have

When I make my way back to the boxcar, a clean Hazel appears out of nowhere. Her hair shines its normal blond and her hair ringlets bounce as she trots along. My eyes venture down to see that she adorns my old dress, which cling to her dainty figure like a glove. “Has Aggie taken a lover? Hmm. I wish I was young again. Did ya know, the prettiest darn girl in my small, liddle town was me? Before dances Daddy always bought me new shoes since all the boys asked ta dance with me. Boy I was somethin’

In Tony Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye, a Black child being full of innocence leads to misery. Leaving her with the absence of love she was given proceeded to feelings of loneliness and hatred. Lacking pride and knowledge within the abandonment of her own family and the inequality in which she was given within her everyday life. Pecola's insanity was brought on due to the lack of knowledge, structure, love and inequality she received. Pecola lacks structure and is frequently left alone to develop

In The Bluest Eye , Toni Morrison begins the novel with Pecola’s coming to age , her menarche and transition from prepubescence to womanhood . Pecola’s friends , Claudia and Frieda will loose their innocence as they choose to help Pecola . Pecola’s life and the event of the death of her baby ; causing the marigolds unable to bloom and drove her towards insanity. Pecola’s pregnancy exposes the inhumanity and hatred in the hands of the African American community. This community does not show empathy

1) I believe The Bluest Eye’s overall meaning of the book is beauty. The reason I decided it was beauty is because all through out of The Bluest Eye there is different events where when a character get jealous of one another from the way they look. One event where I can prove the meaning is beauty, is when Pecola wishes for blue eyes. Pecola only wishes for blue eyes to get attention like all the other white girls with blue eyes. Also, because she wanted to beautiful, which leads to how the overall

Pietro Elie F Band 3/8/17 TBE essay 1st Draft: How Pecola’s parents caused her demise In Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove lives a life of suffering and self-hatred and winds up going insane. There are many causes of her insanity, but the primary one is her parents’ poor treatment and neglect of her. Morrison uses different points of view at different points in the novel to show that Pecola’s demise is brought about by

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, tells a story of a young black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who desires blue eyes because she is deemed ugly by all of her peers. All of her life, Pecola is mocked for the way she looks and presents herself. She dreams of having blue eyes because she thinks that if she did have them, she would be beautiful and she would be loved. Pecola Breedlove, a character in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, desires to have blue eyes because she is not happy with her appearance, her difficult

Pecola’s Descent: The Devastating Effects of Racism and Abuse in Society Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye Illustrates how a lack of emotional sustenace from her family, sexual abuse, and societal racism all led to Pecola’s descent into hysteria. Toni Morrison explored this through the character Pecola Breedlove. Pecola Breedlove is a young black girl growing up in the 1940’s when society was full of racism and hate. The Bluest Eye tells a compelling story of how trauma affects a young girl through

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is set in Lorain, Ohio, during the tail end of the Great Depression and primarly follows the lives of the MacTeer family, consisting of their two daughters, Claudia and Frida. Pecola stays with the MacTeers, as her father, Cholly, is in jail and her mother, Pauline, went to work for a white family. Henry Washington, a boarder, also stays with the MacTeers. Despite the MacTeers struggling to make ends meet, Pecola lacks a stable familial unit, making Claudia and Frida

Our narrator is physically mortified in the "Battle Royal" chapter and promptly starts a mortifying discourse on the force of lowliness - mortification and fear play their part, and experience unusual changes all through, as confirm by Bledsoe's strategic maneuvers, and by our storyteller's administration and control of different groups to which he is bound. In the story there are some blind and half-blind figures. The leader of of the brotherhood, a.k.a Brother Jack had a glass eye, in chapter

The novel talks about a young girl who has received all sorts of abuse from everyone in the community. Pecola encounters all kinds of ill-treatment including racism, sexual abuse, and beatings among others. Pecola hates her skin color, and so are the rest of the people in the community, and she believes that by getting blue eyes, people will treat her better and with respect. Pecola is also a scapegoat in the community in that everyone accuses her of almost all the wrong doings in the community.

In This book The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Food is a big symbol. Pecola’s family consists of a drunken father that beats and raped his daughter Pecola, a mother that won’t leave this man, and also mistreat the small girl, then finally Pecola who is lost in a twisted world of darkness with her light being blue eyes. The family dirt poor, and can not afford food that would be equivalent to our Mcdonald's. Not only that, but that are even looked down on by the blacks in their neighborhood being the