The Bluest Eyes "- Toni Morrrison
Written by - Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford) is an American writer, editor, and professor who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature for being a writer "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality. "
Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed African American characters; Among the best known songs of his novels like, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. In 2001 she was named one of "The 30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies' Home Journal

Character list:
Pecola Breedlove
Cholly Breedlove
Pauline "Polly" Breedlove
Sam Breedlove
Auntie Jimmy
The Fishers, etc.
Main issue in the novel:
- Whiteness is beauty
- Beauty is subjective
- Love is just as good as the lover
- Gender disparity
- Sacrifice
- Sexual desire
About the Novel:
In the Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove's father rapes her. When Pecola's baby dies, she goes mad Pecola spends the rest of his days, talking to her, her blue eyes, which was given to Soaphead Church.
The "bluest eye" refers to the blue eyes of the blond American myth, by which standard the black-skin and brown-eyed always measure up as inadequate.
At the beginning of the novel, Pecola Breedlove goes to live with Claudia and Frieda's family, the MacTeers, after her father Cholly burns down their old house.
Sometime after the breedloves move into a new house, Cholly rapes Pecola, impregnating her. When she learns of the pregnancy, she goes to see Soaphead Church, the city's spiritual advisor, and asks him to give her blue eyes. Pecola's request is not worth the money or a better house or even more sensible parents; her request is for blue eyes - something that, even if she had been able to acquire them, would not have abated the harshness of her abject reality
When Pecola's baby dies, she's driven mad by sadness and abuse, and she spends the rest of her days in her mirror, talking to her fantasy friend about her big blue eyes.
So, The bluest eyes provide an extended depiction of the ways in which internalized the ways in which internal beauty white women and girls. Nine-year-old Claudia and ten year-old Frieda Mac Teer live in Lorain Ohil, with their parents. It is the end of the great depression, and the girl's parents are more concerned with making ends meet with lavishing attention on their daughters, but there is an undercurrent of love and stability in their home.
So, The Bluest Eye remains one of Tony Morrisons' most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.
Written by - Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford) is an American writer, editor, and professor who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature for being a writer "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality. "
Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed African American characters; Among the best known songs of his novels like, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. In 2001 she was named one of "The 30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies' Home Journal

Character list:
Pecola Breedlove
Cholly Breedlove
Pauline "Polly" Breedlove
Sam Breedlove
Auntie Jimmy
The Fishers, etc.
Main issue in the novel:
- Whiteness is beauty
- Beauty is subjective
- Love is just as good as the lover
- Gender disparity
- Sacrifice
- Sexual desire
About the Novel:
In the Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove's father rapes her. When Pecola's baby dies, she goes mad Pecola spends the rest of his days, talking to her, her blue eyes, which was given to Soaphead Church.
The "bluest eye" refers to the blue eyes of the blond American myth, by which standard the black-skin and brown-eyed always measure up as inadequate.
At the beginning of the novel, Pecola Breedlove goes to live with Claudia and Frieda's family, the MacTeers, after her father Cholly burns down their old house.
Sometime after the breedloves move into a new house, Cholly rapes Pecola, impregnating her. When she learns of the pregnancy, she goes to see Soaphead Church, the city's spiritual advisor, and asks him to give her blue eyes. Pecola's request is not worth the money or a better house or even more sensible parents; her request is for blue eyes - something that, even if she had been able to acquire them, would not have abated the harshness of her abject reality
When Pecola's baby dies, she's driven mad by sadness and abuse, and she spends the rest of her days in her mirror, talking to her fantasy friend about her big blue eyes.
So, The bluest eyes provide an extended depiction of the ways in which internalized the ways in which internal beauty white women and girls. Nine-year-old Claudia and ten year-old Frieda Mac Teer live in Lorain Ohil, with their parents. It is the end of the great depression, and the girl's parents are more concerned with making ends meet with lavishing attention on their daughters, but there is an undercurrent of love and stability in their home.
So, The Bluest Eye remains one of Tony Morrisons' most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.
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