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Author :The Bluest Eye Epub is added above for free download. The presumed temporary foster care becomes lifelong struggle for the girls. Since the novel, The Bluest Eye Epub is classic, several versions of the book have come out ever since 1970.
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To commemorate Morrison's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Knopf here republishes her full canon of novels. This edition of The Bluest Eye (1970) contains a new afterword by the author.
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A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye,' excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Toni Morrison S Art A Humanistic Exploration Of The Bluest Eye And Beloved
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Toni Morrison, the eighth American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, is perhaps the most formally sophisticated novelist in the history of African-American literature. Astutely, she describes aspects of human lives and, unlike many other writers, reveals the hope and beauty that underlines the worlds ugliness. Her artistic excellence lies in achieving a perfect balance between black literature and writing abouth the universally truth. Although firmly grounded in the cultural heritage and social concerns of black Americans, her work transcends narrowly prescribed conceptions of ethnic literature, exhibiting universal mythical patterns and overtones. Her novels, thus, mourn on universal concerns. The endeavor in this study is to scrutinize the unspoken lexis of Toni Morrison’s works and to unveil the layers of humanistic concerns that provide denotations to her words. Earlier studies on this writer have concentrated on adjudging her as a writer addressing problems of black people. However, this book tries to extend this notion to encompass the problems of whole human community by assimilating blacks in the general drama of life. Before dyeing the strings of Morrison’s novels with the colour of humanist concerns, this book delineates the term ‘Humanism’ from which these humanistic concerns arise.
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The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted. Dick And Jane Primer In Toni Morrison S The Bluest Eye As An Aesthetic Device
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Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject American Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The focus of this paper is the narrative mechanism of employing a paragraph of 'Dick and Jane' Reader, which was popular in children schools in 1940s in the American United States. It educates children how to read and they hear it from the very beginning of their lives. Through such an educational system, the white dominant culture exerts its authority in oppressing black people. In her novel 'The Bluest Eye', the African-American writer Toni Morrison cuts an expert of 'Dick and Jane' narrative and uses it as a prologue. She repeats the paragraph three times which are highly different from each other, then dismembers it into pieces that appear as headings to some chapters of the novel. The study reveals the aesthetic purpose beyond such reproducing and dismembering of 'Dick and Jane' narrative. Morrison sends a message of moral content to blacks as well as whites: On the one hand, blacks, particularly those who immersed in the white ideology, have to wake up and realize the value of their culture, heritage and language in protecting their black identity. On the other hand, whites should respect and admit the cultural and humane existence of the other and realize the merit of the black culture.
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First published in 1970 by Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, the novel tells the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Race And Gender In Toni Morrison S The Bluest Eye
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Examination Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Koblenz-Landau (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: Throughout history, the highly contested concepts of race and gender have adversely shaped the lives of millions of people. In the United States it is most notably Native Africans and African Americans who have been victimized on the grounds of their skin color. Women of African descent have suffered a double jeopardy due to the intersection of race and gender. For a great many of African Americans, men and women alike, literature has become an “important vehicle to represent the social context, to expose inequality, racism and social injustice.” In The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison explores the issue of African American female identity. The female Bildungsroman scrutinizes the problem of growing up black and female in a society which equates beauty with blue-eyed whiteness. Consumer goods, the media, adult approval and a dismissive attitude towards her mislead the protagonist Pecola Breedlove to internalize white beauty standards. With the story of Pecola, Morrison points out how the internalization leads to racial self-loathing and eventually to self-destruction. Nonetheless, the negative tone of The Bluest Eye is in part counteracted through Claudia MacTeer, whose narrative is juxtaposed to Pecola’s anti-Bildung and thus turns the novel into a double Bildungsroman with one girl “growing up” and the other one “growing down.” The following thesis will focus on the issues of race and gender in The Bluest Eye. The topic can be considered of particular relevance as it addresses a theme which remained unexamined until the 1970s, a theme which many have not wanted to know about and which others have been in denial about. Morrison, though, faces the truth about the intersection of race and gender by exploring in her novel how racism and sexism function, as well as the devastating consequences that can occur. Her debut further underlines that the search for culprits is complicated since the perpetrators in the crimes against Pecola are often victims themselves. [...]
Black Identity In Toni Morrison S The Bluest Eye
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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,3, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to show the destruction of identity in The Bluest Eye. In order to find out how far Toni Morrison digests her own experiences in her first piece of work, it is important to have a closer insight into her biography. First of all, I will provide the reader with some basic information about the author and genesis of the work in order to find out how far Toni Morrison dwells on her past. It is necessary to reflect on the underlying reasons why Toni Morrison started writing The Bluest Eye, as her motivation reveals the emotional attachment she has to her work. Hence, The Bluest Eye is introduced. The primer depicts the main aspects around the Bluest Eye and how it deals with identity formation and the tremendous problem with the context of beauty. Subsequently, I will give a definition of social identity to lay the foundation and back my argumentation. In this context, the concept of beauty plays a major role. I will illustrate the difficult situation of black people in a dominant white culture and how some black characters in The Bluest Eye are developed as a result of this. After that, I will present a sociological view of this problem and describe how Morrison’s characters developed their identities by classifying them into categories. In my conclusion, I will discuss the main character’s identities and highlight the differences between the MacTeers and the Breedloves.
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. CliffsNotes on The Bluest Eye & Sula covers two of Toni Morrison’s unforgettable novels. The Bluest Eye, Morrison’s first novel, focuses on Pecola Breedlove, a lonely, young black girl living in Ohio in the late 1940s. Through Pecola, Morrison exposes the power and cruelty of white, middle-class American definitions of beauty. Sula, Morrison’s second novel, focuses on a young black girl named Sula, who matures into a strong and determined woman in the face of adversity and the distrust, even hatred, of her by the black community in which she lives. Morrison delves into the strong female relationships and how these bonds nurture and threaten individual identity. This study guide will take you beneath the surface of Morrison’s complex characters to uncover their universal themes. Helpful background information about the author brings these novels into context for even greater understanding. Other features that help you study include Complete character lists A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Character analyses of major players Glossary of difficult terms Critical essays Review questions and essay topics Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
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We don’t need to tell you anything more but the fact that today’s summary is a story about a black 10-year girl back in the 1940s to make you realize that you’ll need some tissues and a lot of strength to endure it.
But, this time, it’s even worse than you can imagine.
So, prepare for a great deal of pain and even more suffering: it’s Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.”
Who Should Read “The Bluest Eye”? And Why?
We know some people who think that the story about white privilege is a lie furthered by cultural Marxism.
In fact, we know millions of them.
If you ask us, there should be a law that they should read “The Bluest Eye” and repeat their beliefs once again after finishing it.
As for the others – read it because it’s a great, endlessly lyrical masterwork of literature.
Toni Morrison Biography
Toni Morrison is an American writer and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.
She gained some popularity with “The Bluest Eye,” but “Song of Solomon” cemented her reputation as a great writer.
She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for “Beloved,” a novel inspired by the life of African-American slave Margaret Garner who chose to kill her own daughter rather than allowing the U.S. government to take her back to slavery.
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The book was turned into an Academy Award-nominated movie starring Oprah Winfrey a decade later.
In the meantime, Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Plot
Our narrator (well, mostly) Claudia MacTeer is a mature, independent 9-year-old girl who lives with her one-year older sister Frieda and her parents in an “old, cold and green” house in Lorain, Ohio.
The family isn’t really wealthy but is kind and caring.
And, in the beginning of the book, they decide to take under their wing a tenant named Mr. Henry, and Pecola Breedlove, a temporary foster child who likes Shirley Temple.
Oh, yes – did we forget to mention?
It’s 1941 and Shirley Temple is 13 years old and a big thing – or as Salvador Dali would say, “the youngest, most sacred monster of the cinema in her time.”
Also, Pecola is black.
And comes from a family which is all but the opposite of the MacTeers.
In fact, the reason why she is there with Frieda and Claudia is as gruesome as it comes: her alcoholic and abusive father Cholly had burned down their house.
Needless to add, Pecola didn’t have a great childhood.
She spent most of it alone and quiet, wishing that her parents would stop fighting (both verbally, and, unfortunately, literally as well).
And as it often happens, in time, she started blaming herself for her parents’ problems. Being a child – and one constantly reminded by absolutely everybody that she is “ugly” – Pecola starts believing that her parents may be better to each other if she was a little bit more beautiful.
And, to Pecola in 1941, being more beautiful meant the same thing it did to Michael Jackson half a century later: being whiter.
And also – what it did to Hitler about the same time on the other side of the Atlantic:
Namely, having blue eyes!
Just like all those beautiful white children in the “Dick and Jane” series of books, just like all those blue-eyed dolls she had received throughout her childhood!
But Pecola’s parents, Cholly and Pauline, didn’t get to become the way they were just because they wanted to.
There’s a whole history there too.
And, unfortunately, most of it you can already guess.
But, since, it’s really something you should never forget – It’s flashback time nevertheless.
So, Pauline Breedlove had a deformed foot and felt as an outcast in her large family. She was also an outcast in the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant community around and an outcast in her own community as well, in face of her views on love and marriage.
So, basically, quite the same as Pecola herself, only a decade later.
Speaking of which – Pauline had a role model as well, and once again we’re talking about a white actress:
Jean Harlow, Ms. Blond Bombshell herself.
Of course she ended up marrying someone who was quite the opposite of what she dreamed a romantic partner is.
Cholly Breedlove.
He and Life got off on an even “wronger foot”: Cholly was left near the train tracks when he was just four days old.
Fortunately, his great aunt Jimmy takes care of him; unfortunately, the day she dies is the day he experiences a humiliation which will leave a scar on much stronger men than him.
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Namely, as he has sex for the first time with a girl named Darlene, two white men flash them and force them to continue making love while they are watching them.
How much more can a man take?
Unfortunately, there’s a lot more where that came from.
And it pains us to even retell it.
Because back in the present, as she is one day doing the dishes, Cholly rapes her daughter Pecola.
Don’t ask us why.
We don’t know. Nobody knows, in fact.
We’re quite sure that even Cholly doesn’t.
Which makes for an even more painful reading the second time it happens. Especially since this time, it leads to Pecola being pregnant.
And it gets even worse from there on…
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Claudia and Frieda find out about Pecola’s pregnancy and, unlike everybody else around, pray that it survives.
And since they are children – and it’s the 1940s – they believe that if they plant marigold seeds and the flowers eventually bloom, Pecola’s baby will survive.
So, they use all the money they had saved to buy a bike to buy marigold seeds.
The flowers never bloom.
And since this is literature and symbols mean something, Pecola’s prematurely born baby dies.
But it’s still not the end.
You see, in the meantime, Pecola, superstitious herself, goes to Soaphead Church, self-titled “Reader, Adviser, and Interpreter of Dreams” but also a misanthrope and a quack healer.
Pecola asks from him blue eyes.
He says that she will get them if she gives some food to his landlord’s dog and if the dog reacts in some way.
The dog does alright – but only because the food Soaphead Church gives Pecola to feed the dog with is previously poisoned by him.
Pecola believes that she will get her blue eyes.
Instead, she goes mad.
She starts talking to herself and we realize that she doesn’t know how to react to her father raping her, but she does know that she already has gotten her blue eyes.
After all, she thinks, everybody has started looking at her differently.
It must be the blue eyes.
It couldn’t be the incest or the rape, the pregnancy or the fact that she’s insane, could it?
My god, there’s so much pain and suffering here.
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“The Bluest Eye” – as one review has concluded – is “so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.”
Described as “a series of painfully accurate impressions,” the book has been challenged more times than “The Giver” and praised as much as “Beloved,” Morrison’s most celebrated book.
There were reasons for the former when the novel first appeared in 1970 – but time has vindicated “The Bluest Eye” and proved wrong the ones challenging it.
Which means – there will always be reasons for the latter.
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