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- Toni Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye, was written during the 1960s and published in 19702. Through several layers of voices and different narrative techniques, the book tells us the shocking story of a black little girl named Pecola Breedlove, who descends into madness after being emotionally.
- The Bluest Eye Nonfiction The Dancing Mind Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Them in the eye. They will approach, run to us to love and play which we misread and give back fear and anger. Giant birds also are.
Beauty is something that a lot of people in life strive for , because everyone has fitted in their mind what exactly beauty is. People know that it can help you out in life. But what most people don’t know is that, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Meaning that beauty should not be characterized by what people are told it is, beauty is different for everyone, what is beautiful for you may be ugly to someone else. The characters in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye are confronted with the ideal of beauty and strive for it whether they know it or not. The two characters that I think were followed the ideal of beauty in Toni Morrison’s story are Pauline and Pecola.
	
In Toni Morrison’s story and in real life, beauty is described…show more content…
It wasn’t because her teeth were rotten, the tooth just fell out. "I was sitting back in my seat, and I taken a big bite of that candy, and it pulled a tooth right out of my mouth. I could of cried. I had good teeth, not a rotten one in my head. I don’t believe I ever did get over that" (122). After trying so hard to become beautiful and things going bad the harder she tried , she just gave up.
	
Pecola strived for beauty throughout the whole book, she knew that people though she was an ugly child. So she thought if she had blue eyes , things would be different and she would be recognized and become beautiful. Pecola, being a child, did not know that her wish was just not possible. But she was a kid and didn’t know any better. She figured that if she had blue eyes like Maurine Pie, she would be popular and beautiful. Pecola asked Soaphead Church for blue eyes, and he told he would. Although Pecola never really got blue eyes, she thought she did and it was enough to fulfill her needs.
	
In Conclusion, the characters did not achieve the beauty they desired. Pauline gave up on her quest to become beautiful, the harder she tired the worse things got. Pecola did not really get her blue eyes , although she thought she got them and that was fulfilling for her. If the characters had not worried about becoming beautiful , I think they would have been better of in
	
In Toni Morrison’s story and in real life, beauty is described…show more content…
It wasn’t because her teeth were rotten, the tooth just fell out. "I was sitting back in my seat, and I taken a big bite of that candy, and it pulled a tooth right out of my mouth. I could of cried. I had good teeth, not a rotten one in my head. I don’t believe I ever did get over that" (122). After trying so hard to become beautiful and things going bad the harder she tried , she just gave up.
	
Pecola strived for beauty throughout the whole book, she knew that people though she was an ugly child. So she thought if she had blue eyes , things would be different and she would be recognized and become beautiful. Pecola, being a child, did not know that her wish was just not possible. But she was a kid and didn’t know any better. She figured that if she had blue eyes like Maurine Pie, she would be popular and beautiful. Pecola asked Soaphead Church for blue eyes, and he told he would. Although Pecola never really got blue eyes, she thought she did and it was enough to fulfill her needs.
	
In Conclusion, the characters did not achieve the beauty they desired. Pauline gave up on her quest to become beautiful, the harder she tired the worse things got. Pecola did not really get her blue eyes , although she thought she got them and that was fulfilling for her. If the characters had not worried about becoming beautiful , I think they would have been better of in
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Bluest Eye as well as the influence and effect of the white standards on the black community. The attention will also be paid to the importance of the ancestor for the black community. What drives a man to rape his own daughter? Of all the hard-luck stories we've encountered so far in this novel, nothing can equal Cholly's story — especially his early years, when he was abandoned by his father before he was born, then wrapped in newspapers and thrown on a junk heap by his mother after he was born.