The Bluest Eye

The novel begins with a series of sentences that discernm to sleep to clingher from a fryrens reader, describing a house and the family that run shorts in the house the child wants to crop just no matchless is available to play. This sequence is repeated and accordingly is repeated a third conviction without spaces between the words material body of like a nursery rhyme. This is to give an idea showing a child is talking. Pocolas low self-consciousness comes from the physical and sexual pace that she endured as a child.She was raped by her draw she is a found and abused by many an(prenominal) mountain. In the 1960s the self-image of murkyamoor women and daughters was determined by the white women that were rough. During that time inexorable was non resplendent to all(prenominal), white was. The forced white beauty standards contributed to nigh pitch dismalness womens low self-esteem during that time. The view of how the mass white finale floods the minds and ideological views of the forbidding community.Pocolas low self-esteem comes from the physical and sexual abuse that she endured as a child. She was raped by her father she is abased and abused by many citizenry. She was taught at a young age by her female pargonnt Mrs. Breed dearest that she wasnt beautiful, this came from the resentment of her on lets peel and she to a faultk it out on her daughter. Toni Morrison has a pass struggle of self-identification and beauty standards.This is identified with the comparison of black women girls to the clichd ash- fairish fuzz and bad nubd white women in the 60s. An typeface of this would be when Claudia is gifted a white doll that has towheaded blur and begrimed eye. According to Toni Morrisons Character Claudia in The Bluest eyeball Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs all the origination had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink- peel offned doll was what either girl child trea ver itabled.Here, they said, this is beautiful, and if you ar on this day worthy you may receive it. Claudia is explaining how confused she is because she does non see the same beauty that is forced on her with fairish hair and blue eyed white girls and baby dolls. She eventide goes so utmost-off as stripping the doll to its core which is a realization that the outdoors beauty meant nothing because the core was execrable. Something she was considered worthy of having she plan was woeful.Pecola suffers from low self-esteem issues from large number calling her pitiable and connecting her to negative and f ill-favored things. It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held the pictures, and knew the sights if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different If she looked different, beautiful, maybe Cholly would be different, and Mrs. Breedlove too. Maybe theyd say, Why, look at pretty-eyed Pecola.We mustnt do bad things in bird-sc atomic number 18r of those pretty eyes. Pretty eyes. Pretty blue eyes. Big blue pretty eyes.( The Bluest Eye) Instead of the traits, she has already, she wants to have Blue eyes. Blue eyes were considered beautiful s dealtily like the reference before made to the baby doll. Since the white people dominated the view of beauty, this is why she obsessed over Shirley synagogue who had blonde hair and blue eyes. According to the Huff post She was Americas top box-office tramp during the 1930s, outranking Clark Gable, and receiving more fan mail than Greta Garbo. As a child star, she was amazing,.(HuffPost).Claudia is the youngest child of the MacTeer family. She similarly endures the same issues of discolourist and racist beauty standards as Pecola but she is too young to care. According to Toni Morrisons Character Claudia in The Bluest Eye I couldnt tie in them in their adoration because I hated Shirley. Not because she was cute, but because she danced with Boj angles, who was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me.Instead, he was enjoying, sharing, giving a lovely dance thing with one of those low white girls whose socks never slid down under their heels. So I said, I like Jane Withers. Claudia is also the fighter and the rebel as far as going against the views of others. When she is gifted a baby doll that has blonde hair and blue eyes she doesnt find it as beautiful as others do. Instead, Claudia picks it a break out, this is because she is young and has not been able to truly understand self-hatred that the adults have.She is considered the encouraging character in the novel. Claudia is thrown into situations and has experienced different things which get aheads her mature but also a child and doesnt know much about the world yet. Opposite of Claudia, Pecola has self-image problems and is a passive character. Unlike Claudia, Pecola did not grow up in a pleasin g and caring home.Instead, she grew up in what is describe and ugly family. Ugly in terms of disastrous home, features, and upbringing. Pecola values the blonde hair and blue eyed people and wants to have the same traits. discover of the two, Claudia is better able to reject white, middle-class Americas definitions of beauty.Pecola considers Shirley Temple as the perfects little girl. At the beginning of the book, Pecolas love for her Shirley Temple cup opens the view of her fascination. My mother was referring to was Pecola. According to Toni Morrisons Character Claudia in The Bluest Eye The three of us, Pecola, Frieda, and I, listened to her downstairs in the kitchen fussing about the amount of milk Pecola had drunk.We knew she was fond of the Shirley Temple cup and took every opportunity to drink milk out of it just to handle and see sweet Shirleys face. She gets in trouble for drinking all the milk, Claudias mother thinks she is world greedy but she just wants to use her cup a t most. To Pecola Shirley Temple is who she wants to be, she considers herself ugly and she gets if she looked more like Shirley Temple.Where Pecola lives brings conceptual beauty standards such as blonde hair and blue eyes. Maureen symbolizes wealth in the black community. Her family were unobjectionable skin and have money, she is also new to the neighborhood. According to Toni Morrisons Character Claudia in The Bluest Eye Maureen Peal.A high-yellow breathing in child with long brown hair braided into two lynch ropes that hung down her back. She was rich, at least by our standards, as rich as the richest of the white girls, swaddled in comfort and care. The fictitious character of her clothes threatened to derange Frieda and me. Both Shirley Temple and Maureen define the beauty that Pecola wishes she had. Shirley Temple is white with blonde hair and blue eyes and adore by America. Maureen is a beautiful jobless-skinned black girl with money.This may be a realization that you can still be black and pretty, shes just not that. She I identify with this when Maureen calls the three girls Black and ugly black referring to Pecola. Safe on the other side, she screamed at us, I am cute And you ugly Black and ugly black e mos. I am cute(The Bluest Eye)The Bluest Eyes gives a view of black women during the 60s and shines the light on the norm that was going on around that time. The novel represented different main situations in the black community. Touches on troubled homes and how black children were taken from the home to be placed in a damage home that offers more love.Pecola was the darkest character literally and figuratively. She had the most going on in the novel and. Society has taught her that her skin and feature are ugly and everything she require to value needs to be white. Being raped by her father and belittled by the whole community. This novel teaches struggle and hearty discrimination which is a recurring theme. throughout the novel, Pecola i s growing on with the Family she lived with. Im sure she appreciates existence in a loving family but unfortunately, the lesson was about loving herself and learning how to love herself because her mother couldnt teach her.Works CitedBEAUTY nonpareil OVER THE DECADES Part 7 THE 60s. IDEALIST STYLE, www.idealiststyle.com/blog/beauty-ideal-over-the-decades-part-7-the-60s.Full textual matter of The Bluest Eye. Internet Archive, The Library Shelf, archive.org/stream/TheBluestEyeFullTextJAMESSUTTON/The Bluest Eye_full text JAMES SUTTON_djvu.txt.Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eyes. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1993.Rosas, Alexandra. Why the gyp near Shirley Temple Black. The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 7 Dec. 2017, www.huffingtonpost.com/alexandra-rosas/why-the-fuss-about-shirle_b_4768929.html.The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Audiobook Fastest Loader. YouTube, YouTube, 12 Nov. 2017,www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUCS2Orzo84.According to Toni Morrisons CharaThe bluest eye pectoral miss Is a passive, young and quiet girl who lives a hard life her parents are constantly physically and verbally fighting. Throughout the book, thoracic is reminded continuously of how ugly she is, which fuels her aspiration to be white with blue eyes. pectoral muscle, a poor black girl, is compelled to believe that she is, In fact, ugly. Tortured and rack by almost everyone she knows, the unmarriedism of the protagonist, musculus pectoralis Overlooked Is destroyed by both parliamentary law and her family situations and experiences.This presents the reader tit the idea that high society and or family experiences can tear an individual from their identity if they are mentally sick enough. pecs Overlooked, who wants to be beautiful, becomes part from her black Identity once society victimizes her Innocence by labeling her as ugly. Pectoral and her community live based on a rate of ideals whiteness and beauty. When Maureen Peal is introduced in the book, her skin color and class si tuation is regarded as oppressive to other blacks in the novel, especially Pectoral who Is exceedingly susceptible to It since everyone thinks of her as ugly.When described in the cafeteria, Maureen Is presented as A high-yellow dream child with long brown hair braided into two lynch ropes that hung down her back (52). The lynch ropes port is outright racial oppression, as lynching (hanging) is what commonly happened to slaves for punishment along with the ASK Incidences. When Pectoral sees that being beautiful is related to having friends and more importantly to her, being loved, she will do anything to become beautiful.When Pectoral and Claudia are undefendable to Maureen Peal, they pip up ugly names and relate her to ugly things so she would be on their level. Maureen is an example of the ongoing theme that white people are rich and gorgeous, and black people are ugly and not content. Maureen says later on, that l am cute, and you ugly Black and ugly black e moss. I am cute (73). When Pectoral first met Maureen, they thought they were going to be friends.When Pectoral hears Maureen say this about them, she starts to believe that she needs to be beautiful In order to have friends, and she starts to wish for the bluest eyes and the whitest skin, thus proving that society can tear an individual from their true identity. Pectoral Overdoses self-esteem and her identity is also affected by her family situation and experiences. When the Overlooked family is introduced In the beginning of the story, Morrison portrays them as a stereotypical early mouthpiece poor black family. When they are first described. He wrote. The Breadboxes did not live in a shopfront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived in that respect because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly (37). Morrison writes about the role that the whites and the colored people give the Breadboxes I n society. Because of the color of their skin, the Breadboxes are forced to adopt their storefront apartment as part of who they are and let it dictate their lives.They feel that they are ugly since they are not the model of what society in general portrays as appropriate. Pectoral sees what society portrays as appropriate, which Is light skin with blue eyes, along with a decent amount of money. She tries to get tho one of those things, the bluest eyes, and it ends up wrecking her psychologically, causing her to go 1 take makes fun of Pectoral and her father, dear after Pectoral starts to consider her as a reined. l wasnt even talking to you. I was talking to Pectoral. Yeah. About seeing her naked daddy (72).Once the fellowship that Piccolos father walks naked around Pectoral, Maureen decides to make fun of her because she is ugly, and because it is common acquaintance that Pectoral sees her dad walking around naked. These family experiences and situations all have a negative effect on Pectoral because she is not just the ugly girl now, she is the poor black girl who sees her father naked. As a segment of a family that is part of the low society, Pectoral Overlooked, labeled as ugly trudges and fails to carry her sanity and her childhood innocence when she tries to get people to like and love her.Once an innocent little girl, now a girl who is torn aside from her natural identity after society and societys outlook on her family make her feel ugly and unwanted. She becomes labeled as the scapegoat of the community and slips into oblivion. Toni Morrison wrote the Bluest Eye depicting Pectoral Overlooked and her family as the scapegoat of the entire community. use Pectoral as an example, Morrison tries to convey the smear to not become wispy to what society thinks of as ugly and beautiful Just be yourself.The bluest eyePectoral Overlooked Is a passive, young and quiet girl who lives a hard life her parents are constantly physically and verbally fighti ng. Throughout the book, Pectoral is reminded continuously of how ugly she is, which fuels her aspiration to be white with blue eyes. Pectoral, a poor black girl, is compelled to believe that she is, In fact, ugly. Tortured and tormented by almost everyone she knows, the identity of the protagonist, Pectoral Overlooked Is destroyed by both society and her family situations and experiences.This presents the reader tit the idea that society and or family experiences can tear an individual from their identity if they are mentally weak enough. Pectoral Overlooked, who wants to be beautiful, becomes torn from her black Identity once society victimizes her Innocence by labeling her as ugly. Pectoral and her community live based on a set of ideals whiteness and beauty. When Maureen Peal is introduced in the book, her skin color and class status is regarded as oppressive to other blacks in the novel, especially Pectoral who Is highly susceptible to It since everyone thinks of her as ugly.Wh en described in the cafeteria, Maureen Is presented as A high-yellow dream child with long brown hair braided into two lynch ropes that hung down her back (52). The lynch ropes expression is outright racial oppression, as lynching (hanging) is what commonly happened to slaves for punishment along with the ASK Incidences. When Pectoral sees that being beautiful is related to having friends and more importantly to her, being loved, she will do anything to become beautiful.When Pectoral and Claudia are exposed to Maureen Peal, they make up ugly names and relate her to ugly things so she would be on their level. Maureen is an example of the ongoing theme that white people are rich and gorgeous, and black people are ugly and not content. Maureen says later on, that l am cute, and you ugly Black and ugly black e moss. I am cute (73). When Pectoral first met Maureen, they thought they were going to be friends.When Pectoral hears Maureen say this about them, she starts to believe that she needs to be beautiful In order to have friends, and she starts to wish for the bluest eyes and the whitest skin, thus proving that society can tear an individual from their true identity. Pectoral Overdoses self-esteem and her identity is also affected by her family situation and experiences. When the Overlooked family is introduced In the beginning of the story, Morrison portrays them as a stereotypical early sass poor black family. When they are first described. He wrote. The Breadboxes did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly (37). Morrison writes about the role that the whites and the colored people give the Breadboxes In society. Because of the color of their skin, the Breadboxes are forced to adopt their storefront apartment as part of who they are and let it dictate their lives.They feel that th ey are ugly since they are not the model of what society in general portrays as appropriate. Pectoral sees what society portrays as appropriate, which Is light skin with blue eyes, along with a decent amount of money. She tries to get Just one of those things, the bluest eyes, and it ends up ruining her psychologically, causing her to go 1 OFF makes fun of Pectoral and her father, Just after Pectoral starts to consider her as a reined. l wasnt even talking to you. I was talking to Pectoral. Yeah. About seeing her naked daddy (72).Once the knowledge that Piccolos father walks naked around Pectoral, Maureen decides to make fun of her because she is ugly, and because it is common knowledge that Pectoral sees her dad walking around naked. These family experiences and situations all have a negative effect on Pectoral because she is not just the ugly girl now, she is the poor black girl who sees her father naked. As a member of a family that is part of the low society, Pectoral Overlooked , labeled as ugly trudges and fails to maintain her sanity and her childhood innocence when she tries to get people to like and love her.Once an innocent little girl, now a girl who is torn away from her natural identity after society and societys outlook on her family make her feel ugly and unwanted. She becomes labeled as the scapegoat of the community and slips into oblivion. Toni Morrison wrote the Bluest Eye depicting Pectoral Overlooked and her family as the scapegoat of the entire community. Using Pectoral as an example, Morrison tries to convey the point to not become subdued to what society thinks of as ugly and beautiful Just be yourself.