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Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideasexplored in a literary work.

• The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove–a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others–who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful.
• Bluest Eye(s) To Pecola, blue eyes symbolize the beauty and happiness that she associates with the white, middle-class world. They also come to symbolize her own blindness, for she gains blue eyes only at the cost of her sanity. The “bluest” eye could also mean the saddest eye.

The Bluest Eye was my effort to say something about that; to say something about why she had not, or possibly ever would have, the experience of what she possessed and also why she.

Whiteness as the Standard of Beauty

The Bluest Eye provides an extended depictionof the ways in which internalized white beauty standards deformthe lives of black girls and women. Implicit messages that whitenessis superior are everywhere, including the white baby doll givento Claudia, the idealization of Shirley Temple, the consensus thatlight-skinned Maureen is cuter than the other black girls, the idealizationof white beauty in the movies, and Pauline Breedlove’s preferencefor the little white girl she works for over her daughter. Adultwomen, having learned to hate the blackness of their own bodies,take this hatred out on their children—Mrs. Breedlove shares theconviction that Pecola is ugly, and lighter-skinned Geraldine cursesPecola’s blackness. Claudia remains free from this worship of whiteness,imagining Pecola’s unborn baby as beautiful in its blackness. Butit is hinted that once Claudia reaches adolescence, she too willlearn to hate herself, as if racial self-loathing were a necessarypart of maturation.

The person who suffers most from white beauty standardsis, of course, Pecola. She connects beauty with being loved andbelieves that if she possesses blue eyes, the cruelty in her lifewill be replaced by affection and respect. This hopeless desireleads ultimately to madness, suggesting that the fulfillment ofthe wish for white beauty may be even more tragic than the wishimpulse itself.

Seeing versus Being Seen

Pecola’s desire for blue eyes, while highly unrealistic,is based on one correct insight into her world: she believes thatthe cruelty she witnesses and experiences is connected to how sheis seen. If she had beautiful blue eyes, Pecola imagines, peoplewould not want to do ugly things in front of her or to her. Theaccuracy of this insight is affirmed by her experience of beingteased by the boys—when Maureen comes to her rescue, it seems thatthey no longer want to behave badly under Maureen’s attractive gaze.In a more basic sense, Pecola and her family are mistreated in partbecause they happen to have black skin. By wishing for blue eyesrather than lighter skin, Pecola indicates that she wishes to seethings differently as much as she wishes to be seen differently.She can only receive this wish, in effect, by blinding herself.Pecola is then able to see herself as beautiful, but only at thecost of her ability to see accurately both herself and the worldaround her. The connection between how one is seen and what onesees has a uniquely tragic outcome for her.

The Power of Stories

The Bluest Eye is not one story, butmultiple, sometimes contradictory, interlocking stories. Characterstell stories to make sense of their lives, and these stories havetremendous power for both good and evil. Claudia’s stories, in particular,stand out for their affirmative power. First and foremost, she tellsPecola’s story, and though she questions the accuracy and meaningof her version, to some degree her attention and care redeem theugliness of Pecola’s life. Furthermore, when the adults describePecola’s pregnancy and hope that the baby dies, Claudia and Friedaattempt to rewrite this story as a hopeful one, casting themselvesas saviors. Finally, Claudia resists the premise of white superiority,writing her own story about the beauty of blackness. Stories byother characters are often destructive to themselves and others.The story Pauline Breedlove tells herself about her own uglinessreinforces her self-hatred, and the story she tells herself abouther own martyrdom reinforces her cruelty toward her family. SoapheadChurch’s personal narratives about his good intentions and his specialrelationship with God are pure hypocrisy. Stories are as likelyto distort the truth as they are to reveal it. While Morrison apparentlybelieves that stories can be redeeming, she is no blind optimistand refuses to let us rest comfortably in any one version of whathappens.

Sexual Initiation and Abuse

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To a large degree, The Bluest Eye isabout both the pleasures and the perils of sexual initiation. Earlyin the novel, Pecola has her first menstrual period, and towardthe novel’s end she has her first sexual experience, which is violent.Frieda knows about and anticipates menstruating, and she is initiatedinto sexual experience when she is fondled by Henry Washington.We are told the story of Cholly’s first sexual experience, whichends when two white men force him to finish having sex while theywatch. The fact that all of these experiences are humiliating andhurtful indicates that sexual coming-of-age is fraught with peril,especially in an abusive environment.

In the novel, parents carry much of the blame for theirchildren’s often traumatic sexual coming-of-age. The most blatantcase is Cholly’s rape of his own daughter, Pecola, which is, ina sense, a repetition of the sexual humiliation Cholly experiencedunder the gaze of two racist whites. Frieda’s experience is lesspainful than Pecola’s because her parents immediately come to herrescue, playing the appropriate protector and underlining, by wayof contrast, the extent of Cholly’s crime against his daughter.But Frieda is not given information that lets her understand whathas happened to her. Instead, she lives with a vague fear of being“ruined” like the local prostitutes. The prevalence of sexual violencein the novel suggests that racism is not the only thing that distortsblack girlhoods. There is also a pervasive assumption that women’sbodies are available for abuse. The refusal on the part of parentsto teach their girls about sexuality makes the girls’ transitioninto sexual maturity difficult.

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Author: Toni Morrison

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Original Language: English

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Publisher: Holt McDougal

Pages: ‎224

Genre: African-American literature

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The bluest is authored by Toni Morrison. The book is a classic and was published back in the 1970; published by the Hold, Rinehart and Winston Publishers. It is interesting to point out that Toni Morrison was only a teacher at Howard University at the time when she wrote this ground breaking novel and it went on to become a classic in American literature. The novel is fictional in genre and based on Afro-American literature.

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The presumed temporary foster care becomes lifelong struggle for the girls.

Since the novel, The Bluest Eye Epub is classic, several versions of the book have come out ever since 1970. The original remains to be a classic whilst all following editions have been an attempt to redeem the book in a different manner.

It is ironic that the novel did not receive well by the audience at time of its release back in 1970 but over the years, it has emerged as a classic of American literature. Today it is recognized on several literary platforms and forums. The novel inspires many modern writers.

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About Author (Toni Morrison):

Toni Morrison is the author of the book ‘the bluest eye’. However, Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia and Toni Morrison is only the pen name she goes by. She was born in the United States in 1931 and is one of the most celebrated American authors in the history of the US. On a professional front, she is not only an author but also a notable screenplay writer and essay writer. Recipient of the Noble Prize in literature, she was a reputed professor at the prestigious Princeton University.