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Bluest Eye: Defining Beauty

Introduction

Toni Morrison, Chloe Anthony Wofford whose real name is, was founded on February 18, 1931 as the second of four children of an African American couple in Lorain - born in Ohio.  She grew up under very poor conditions actually on, but was nevertheless a very good education.  After the Lorain High - had finished school, she began at Howard University in Washington DC to study literature. During this time she had to first gain experience of discrimination against blacks. 

While she pursued this profession, they set themselves again and again for the promotion of African American literature, and his first short stories that make her novels came later developed. Her first novel appeared in 1970 in America under the title "The Bluest Eye" known to us as "The Bluest Eye."However, it took almost 25 years until the book arrived at the public as it was originally planned. At first it was pushed aside and seen as a simple light novel.  In 1993 Toni Morrison was awarded the first African-American woman of the Nobel Prize for Literature.  "For their literary representation of an important side of American society by visionary force and poetic concision," those reasons were that (Ullrich-Ferguson, pp. 121-131). 

Discussion

"They slipped in and out of the box of peeling gray, making no stir in the neighborhood, no sound in the labor force, and no wave in the mayor's office. Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality--collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other (Morrison, pp. 54)"

In her books, it is all about issues like racism, civil rights or social differences between men and women in society, and although these issues are actually very difficult, her books are known as "well-read." 

The novel opens with two prologues. In the first, an omniscient narrator tells a sort of fairy tale about a model family: Mother, Father, Dick and Jane, is the simple story of a happy family. Although the family may be white or black, you get the feeling that this is the perfect white family, the standard American family. In this story nothing happens, Jane is looking for someone to play with. He asks his cat, his father, his mother, his dog, all refuse to play nicely with Jane until finally, you see a friend who will be happy playing Jane.

What happens is that this simple story will be a kind of framework for the novel itself. That is, the story of Pecola Breedolove follows the same pattern of this prologue, but is essentially unchanged. The difference is that Pecola looking for someone who wants it, the relationship with parents is terrible, his father rapes his mother and the rest of the community reject it and the small end Pecola talking to an imaginary friend is actually a new facet of his split personality. ...