Personal Appearance in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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My report is on a wonderful story called 'The Bluest Eye' written by Toni Morrison and published by the Penguin Group. This book was originally published in 1970.

'The Bluest Eye' was Toni Morrison's first novel that takes place in the 1940's and is set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio. This story is about a young girl named Pecola Breedlove who is about 11 years old and would give anything to have the bluest eyes. "Pecola is a delicate, sensitive and abused child when the story begins, and by the time the story ends, she has been just about completely destroyed by violence, and pain."

At the beginning of the story, Pecola desires two things that form her emotional life. First, she wants to learn how to get people to love her. Then when forced to witness her parents? terrible fights, she just wants to disappear. ?Neither wish is granted, and Pecola is forced further and further into her fantasy world, which is her only option of escaping the pain of her reality?.

Have you ever seen those porcelain dolls back in the day, which are just so pretty? Pecola found a beautiful porcelain doll that had blonde hair and blue eyes. The doll was so pretty. She was white because they have not yet came out with African American dolls until about the late 1980?s. Everyone that had blue eyes was known as the ?Beautiful One?s?. Pecola would give anything to be as beautiful as the porcelain doll that she found or the other girls at school.

Pecola believes that being granted the blue eyes that she wishes for would change both how others see her, and they would love her. She is forced to see beauty instead of ugliness. ?At the story?s end, she believes that her wish has been granted, but only at the cost of her san...

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...u feel? How do you think that Pecola feels?

Towards the end of the story, Pecola feels like she has gotten what she wanted. She does not have blue eyes but she feels beautiful like the porcelain dolls.

What does it cost her besides her sanity? Feeling beautiful and having people telling Pecola that she is beautiful has also cost her, her dignity. Because Pecola would do just abut anything for anyone as long as they made her feel beautiful. What a way to live, doing anything to have others making you feel and tell you, you are beautiful. The only voice telling Pecola that she is beautiful is her own.

It really shouldn?t matter what you look like on the outside because everyone is beautiful and that is what Pecola needs to realize. Even the people who do not have the bluest eyes, they are still beautiful. They just have to believe it before anyone else can.

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