I in my opinion reacted surprised since I've never read anything in such detail of my life. Realistic dialogue, and a narrative voice. I stretch my legs open, and he is on top of me.' Then I don’t want his hand between my legs no more, because I think I am softening away. I want to grab hold of something, so I hold his head. I often would stop reading the book at large paragraphs, because I'm not the type to read a big paragraph. I enjoyed the whole book, staying up late, and taking the book on vacations. Toni did exceptionally well in creating the story and picking out the characters. The genre being classic, and historical fiction. Toni Morrison's, The Bluest Eye, her first novel ever written became the Nobel Prize winner in Literature. Pecola is the brought in child and the daughter of Mr. There are six main characters in the book. 'Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a freeman is never safe.' However, by wishing for blue eyes, Pecola indicates that she wishes to see things differently as much as she wishes to be seen differently. Pecola eventually desires blue eyes in order to conform with these white beauty standards imposed on her. Implicit messages that whiteness is superior are everywhere, including the white baby doll given to Claudia, the idealization of Shirley Temple, the consensus that light-skinned Maureen is cuter than the other black girls, and the idealization of white beauty in the movies. 'The Bluest Eye' provides an extended depiction of the ways in which internalized white beauty standards deform the lives of black girls and women.

Furthermore, I will explore the themes “whiteness as the standard of beauty” and “seeing versus being seen” which are sometimes closely connected. In my presentation, I mainly focus on the “Dick and Jane narrative” by means of which the novel opens. The subtext of the first part of the novel ('Autumn' and 'Winter') suggests various topics. Claudia’s and Pecola’s points of view are dominant, but the reader also sees things from other character’s points of view. The first is Claudia MacTeer, who narrates in a mixture of a child’s and an adult’s perspectives, and the second is an omniscient narrator. Toni Morrison uses modernist techniques of stream-of-consciousness, multiple perspectives, and deliberate fragmentation. Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1 (A), Southern Connecticut State University (English Department), language: English, abstract: 'The Bluest Eye' is Toni Morrison’s first novel and was published in 1970.

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