The Bluest Eye Analysis

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The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison and published in 1970 is the story of a young girl struggling with her sense of self-beauty. It’s the early 1940’s in Lorain, Ohio. This story talks about the struggles of self-beauty that young Pecola Breedlove goes through. She believes that if she had blue hair and blonde eyes she would be beautiful. Her story is told through the voices of Frieda and Claudia MacTeer. Pecola whom is the protagonist struggles with seeing her self- beauty and worth. A series of events in her life contributes to this feeling of her not feeling beautiful. Pecola yearns for blonde hair and blue eyes. She was infatuated with Shirley Temple and believed that she was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. …show more content…

Pecola lives a hard life with a mother who is a self-centered martyr and a father who is an abusive drunk. A series of events caused by her family and community causes for her to feel a sense of low self-esteem. Boys and someone who she thought was her friend, Maureen, tease Pecola. She also gets blamed for killing a cat. To add on to Pecola’s problems her father Cholly tries to burn down their house and she has to stay with the MacTeers. Once her family reunites and gets back together Cholly decides to one-day rape Pecola and by doing so he impregnates her. Her mother Pauline doesn’t believe her and in return beats her ruthlessly. Claudia and Frieda want for her baby to live and they believe that if they plant marigold seeds and the flower lives so will the baby. Unfortunately the baby dies during a premature birth. After losing the baby her father rapes her again causing her to go mad. She starts to see a positive side to her being raped. She then believes that she now has blue eyes. I think the audience will love the story that is being told about them, and their lives. Readers would relate to these characters because there are people out

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