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Title: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0-452-28219-5 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.87 (395 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Bluest Eye- January 13, 2004
Comment: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison was an interesting and creative novel. The book is based in Lorain, Ohio which was Morrison's home town. The books focal point is about a little black girl named Pecola who believes that the only way she can be pretty is to have the blondest of hair and the bluest of eyes. She also believes that all of her problems would be solved if she accomplishes this. She is abused mentally by the society that she is in and even physically by her father who rapes and impregnates her.
It is not just Pecola in the book that falls subject to the feeling inferior and abuse, but most of the black community in her town as well. Claudia is another protagonist in the book that witnesses all that happens to Pecola. Claudia lives with her sister Frieda and her mother in a house that is poverty stricken. Claudia narrates the book as an adult looking back at the past when she was nine years old.
The main enemy of the book is not a tangible object or person, but is more of a way of thinking back in the time. Internalized racism is this way of thinking. The black community is targeted by this idea and begins to believe their own inferiority to whites. Pecola being the main character suffers the most from internalized racism.
This was the first book that Toni Morrison ever wrote and the reader can tell by her styles of writing. It almost seems as though she is testing writing styles and speech. From reading the book I can tell that Toni Morrison was experimenting with fiction because the content form is sometimes fleeing from the main idea.
Pecola's experiences throughout the book leave her insensible, a product of her own ideas of herself based on racism in the town. This book was poignant with a depressing tone and at the same time very interesting and informative. Morrison's writing is creative. This book requires interest in a different kind of writing and an open mind. I enjoyed the book, but would not be interested in reading another one written by Toni Morrison.
Rating: 4
Summary: the bluest eye by quinn bottomly
Comment: The book, the bluest eye by Toni Morrison, was a well written book, told thought the eyes of a young black girl. Morrison tells the story of the black struggle thought a young girl coming of age, which strays from the usual perspective of the black supretion story.
The young girl, Pecola, lives in a broken home with here Mother, Father, and older brother Sam. Her mother is a maid to a rich white family. He mother is so corrupted by society she is in love with the white person's way of life. Every day the is told through different mediums, to live a beautiful life of love and happiness it must resemble that of a upper middle class with family. This way of thinking causes here to abounded her role as a mother and devote her love to the white family of which she serves.
The father of the house, named Cholly, is a drunk who ends up destroying the mind of his young daughter, Pecola. He takes no responsibility as a father because of is constant abuse of alcohol. In the end his lust and greed lead him to violently raping his daughter. Word got out about his repulsive acts and he was "put out doors" and banished form the community.
The main character of the story is the little girl named Pecola. Through the story this young girl is seeking beauty. Here dream is to be beautiful, like Sheryl Templeton or other blond haired, blued eyed little girl. She thinks that is she just had blue eyes she and the people around her would be happy. In the end Pecola gains her blue eyes, however the affects of the eyes where not what she had hoped for.
This book deals with many issues surrounding racial discrimination. The main theme Toni Morrison was focusing on through out the book was how, because of the years and years of the white society beating in the idea of racial inferiority into the minds of African Americans. Soon the black race was starting to believe the inferiority of there own people to the white man. Toni Morrison has captured this idea very well, splendid work.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Bluest Eye - January 13, 2004
Comment: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison was an interesting and creative novel. The book is based in Lorain, Ohio which was Morrison's home town. The books focal point is about a little black girl named Pecola who believes that the only way she can be pretty is to have the blondest of hair and the bluest of eyes. She also beleives that all of her problems would be solved if she accomplishes this. She is abused mentally by the society that she is in and even physically by her father who rapes and impregnates her.
It is not just Pecola in the book that falls subject to the feeling inferior and abuse, but most of the black community in her town as well. Claudia is another protagonist in the book that witnesses all that happens to Pecola. Claudia lives with her sister Frieda and her mother in a house that is poverty stricken. Claudia narrates the book as an adult looking back at the past when she was nine years old.
The main enemy of the book is not a tangible object or person, but is more of a way of thinking back in the time. Internalized racism is this way of thinking. The black community is targeted by this idea and begins to believe their own inferiority to whites. Pecola being the main character suffers the most from internalized racism.
This was the first book that Toni Morrison ever wrote and the reader can tell by her styles of writing. It almost seems as though she is testing writing styles and speech. From reading the book I can tell that Toni Morrison was experimenting with fiction because the content form is sometimes fleeing from the main idea.
Pecola's experiences throughout the book leave her unsensible, a product of her own ideas of herself based on racism in the town. This book was poignant with a depressing tone and at the same time very interesting and informative. Morrison's writing is creative. This book requires interest in a different kind of writing and an open mind. I enjoyed the book, but would not be interested in reading another one written by Toni Morrison.
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Title: Sula by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452283868 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 05 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452260116 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Beloved by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452280621 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Bluest Eye and Sula (Cliffs Notes) by Rosetta James, Louisa S. Nye ISBN: 0822002515 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 04 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Paradise by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452280397 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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