See all 18 questions about The Bluest Eye…, Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once, the most haunting, poignant and unforgettable elegy, Readers Choose Today's Great American Novelist. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. It is about the death of someones spirit. well, i'm experiencing severe bookface fatigue and wasn't gonna report on this until i read this cool-as-shit bookster's review: When we finished this book, about half the class--- including me--- were infuriated at Morrison for humanizing certain characters that caused Pecola to suffer the most. Just a few days ago I happened to have a conversation with someone (quite a 'well-read' person too) who said quite casually, almost in an offhand manner, how he found books written by women 'uninteresting'. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Find the quotes you need to support your essay, or refresh your memory of the book by reading these key quotes. The book is told in a variety of perspectives, including first person, past tense, from Pecola, as well as third person omniscient and first person from other members of the family. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison tells the story of a young African American, Pecola, and the social struggles of the time period, including the difficulties of growing up … The Bluest Eye is about life, love, and the treatment of others. Get ready to write your essay on The Bluest Eye. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Bluest Eye and what it means. The Bluest Eye is a work of tremendous emotional, cultural, and historical depth. The Great American Novel is something of a moving target. Here is the little black girl. I initially struggled with this book because I had Pecola in my mind as the protagonist (I officially I hate back cover book summaries) and the narrative seemed to stray quite a bit, encompassing an entire family, an entire community in Lorain, Ohio, and beyond. Chapter 4...monotony of winter is broken by the arrival of a new girl at school named Maureen Peal. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. I will respectfully disagree, as while Percola's story is terrible in the sense of the almost unrelenting pain & bleakness, it is beautiful w. I've had a look, both on Goodreads & the internet, & I can't find the cover of my ebook edition. It is about being ugly in all ways because someone or something always told you that you were. China, Poland and Miss Marie (also known as The Maginot Line) are surely three of the finest whores in literature. See a complete list of the characters in What is the meaning of the 'See Jane run' sequences throughout the novel? I think it's important that books like these exist, because we need to remember that problems like these exist. She is a potential conduit for excellence in the world. So she believes she is unlovable, and is subsequently rendered invisible and therefore a perfect target to absorb the abuses of a society of self-hating, op. Lecture 13 - Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye Overview. During that time period in the US, public schools used Dick and Jane readers to teach all 1st and 2nd graders. This lesson will focus on the summary and setting of the novel The Bluest Eye. Philadelphia :Chelsea House, 1999. warning Note: These citations are software generated and may contain errors. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. by Plume. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Throughout The Bluest Eye, Pecola’s physical attributes affects her self-esteem because she is only exposed to a certain type of beauty due the exposure that she has access to. Oh my goodness, I loved this book - loved it for the language, of course, Morrison is like Woolf or Forester, in how her sentences can do absolutely anything - but also for the way the plot is structured, for how the central character, Pecola, is the most shown and the least known, and for how the denizens of Lorain, Ohio, even the most immoral ones, are treated with equal measures of sympathy and scrutiny by Morrison. The subject matter is harrowing, so proceed with caution, but the strength of it is absolute. Oh my goodness, I loved this book - loved it for the language, of course, Morrison is like Woolf or Forester, in how her sentences can do absolutely anything - but also for the way the plot is structured, for how the central character, Pecola, is the most shown and the least known, and for how the denizens of Lorain, Ohio, even the most immoral ones, are treated with equal measures of sympathy and scrutiny by Morrison. I didn't have the heart to ask him why a second time. Never realizing that people who don't love themselves can never love anybody else. Pecola is a foster child, one who’s never had a lot of money, and she is reminded how ugly she is by many in her city, Lorain. So her cracks multiply and she breaks apart and spills over and she gets blamed for not being pristine by the very people who broke her. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 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