The Bluest Eye by Toni Morisson :: Toni Morisson The Bluest Eye

Toni Morissons saucy The Bluest look is about the life of the Breedlove family who resides in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s. This family consists of the mother Pauline, the begin Cholly, the son Sammy, and the daughter Pecola. The novels focal point is the daughter, an eleven- division-old Black girl who is toilsome to conquer a bout with self-hatred. Everyday she encounters racism, non expert from face cloth people, but mostly from her own race. In their eyes she is much as well as dark, and the darkness of her skin somehow implies that she is inferior, and according to everyone else, her skin makes her even uglier. She feels she git overcome this battle of self-hatred by obtaining blue eyes, but not just any blue. She wants the bluest eye. Morrison is able to use her critical eye to display to the reader the evil that is caused by a society that is indoctrinated by the indispensable goodness and beauty of whiteness and the ugliness of blackness. She uses many different typography tools to depict how white beliefs have dominated American and African American culture. The news report structure of The Bluest Eye is important in revealing just how pervasive and destructive social racism is. Narration in novel comes from several sources. Much of the narration comes from Claudia MacTeer as a nine year old child, but Morrison also gives the reader the insight of Claudia reflecting on the apologue as an adult, some first person narration from Pecolas mother, and narration by Morrison herself as an omniscient narrator. Pecolas experiences would have less meaning coming from Pecola herself because a total and complete victim would be an unreliable narrator, unwilling or unable to relate the actual circumstances of that year. Claudia, from her youthful innocence, is able to look at and relate how the other characters, especially Pecola, idolize the ideal of beauty presented by white, blue-eyed movie stars like little Shirley Temple. In addition to narra tive structure, the structure and composition of the novel itself help to illustrate how much and for how large white ideas of family and home have been forced into black culture. Instead of formulaic chapters and sections, The Bluest Eye is broken up into seasons, fall, winter, spring, and summer. This type of organization suggests that the events described in The Bluest Eye have occurred before, and will occur again. This kind of cycle suggests that there is notion that there is no escape from the cycle of life that Breedloves and MacTeer put out in.