Analysis Of The Book ' The Bluest Eye '

As presented in the movie Miss Representation, media and technology are important because they work as powerful messengers that build many people’s way of thinking. As we live in a technologically advanced generation, being exposed to media is so easy. Both media and technology works as delivering any ideas that shapes our society. They shape our minds about politics, our emotions, and our importance. Then, it means that media can also manipulate our perception of gender role. Among all the ideas that media tries to indoctrinate, it can also portrait the importance of a woman to being all about physical beauty. Media presents a perfect woman’s image focusing on their bodily figure making their value, worth, or mind would depend on their physical appearances. Thus, it influences the way men think what is important about women is their bodily attractiveness. In any kinds of media such as advertisement, films, or video games, women are generally appreciated by their looks, not by their intellectuals or achievements. As media depicts an unrealistic body image of women’s beauty, many young girls’ value is set as to become someone else with attractive appearance, nothing like smart, powerful, or leader-like.

Welcome to the School Cafeteria, home to young critics of social class groups and a playground of imagination. Here is where one will find young scholars unknowingly participating in Primary Economic activity, as they trade school lunches with their fellow classmates. In these school lunches lies one’s resume of their life. A description of their parents’ affection, character, and financial status; based off their fellow peers’ observation he/she is judged. The author of this paper explores such information in Anne Lamott’s book of Reference, Bird by Bird, and Toni Morrison’s African-American literature, The Bluest Eye. In Kaye Gibbons’ novel, Ellen Foster, the main character, Ellen Foster, experiences the “inspection” and connects food, specifically

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrision deals with the struggle of colored women in the 1930 's dealing with the ideals of beauty. The standard of beauty can be described as a community standard that if the women of this story do not live up too, they will be deemed ugly. This standard of beauty can be perpetuated through the treatment of certain characters based on how they look. There are three main symbols that the book and author convey. The first is the standard of beauty. The second is the concept of self-image that is warped to fit white standard of beauty, instead of cultivating a woman 's individuality. Self-image describes how a person perceives themselves through their own actions and internalized emotions. Many things can contribute to a person 's self-image such as, how they are treated by others, how their parents treat them, and how do they treat themselves through life experiences. The third concept of self worth and it is related to self-image. Self-worth is an understanding of personal satisfaction with who you are and the choices you make. For example, as we are first introduced to Pecola. We find that she moves into the Macteer 's house hold because her father is in jail for setting her house on fire. As she lives in this house hold, she falls in love with Shirley temple. This was the standard of beauty for young girls at the time. Pecola love to drink milk out of her Shirley Temple mug. I believe that Morrison added this detail to the story to symbolize her

Have you ever felt that you must be destined for something greater than what; you are currently doing? Many individuals often suffer from this fear, and that they missed something earlier in their life, and that they are meant to be doing something more productive with their lives. This internal struggle is shared with many characters in The Bluest Eye, written by Toni Morrison. They believe that once they obtain certain spiritual, mental, or physical characteristics that they will be able to depart from their current, nauseating living conditions.

Within The Bluest Eye, as in real life, black people, no matter their wealth or education, are constantly faced with the assumptions and demands of a Eurocentric dominated world. Some of these involve encounters with actual people, as when white furniture movers refuse to take back the Breedlove’s torn couch, or when a white candy store owner displays his contemptuous indifference towards Pecola because she’s black. In the novel,Morrison looks deeply into the personality of her characters, exploring the insidious ability of white supremacy to ambush the black psyche, ultimately crippling what we now call our self-esteem. The novel’s primary object of critique is the “thing” that makes some children automatically more valuable than others, more loved because they are considered more beautiful. This “thing” finds its way into the novel’s girls via their parents and the other black adults around them, who coo over white babies on the street but not black ones, and who give their black children white dolls, Shirley Temple drinking cups, and affectionate nicknames based on white movie stars.

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) takes place in Ohio towards the tail end of the depression. The story focuses on the character of Pecola Breedlove who wants to have blue eyes. Pecola becomes convinced that if she had blue eyes her life would be different. Through the eyes of our narrator, Claudia, and her sister Frieda we see the pervasive racism and abuse Pecola is subjected to. Claudia and Frieda act as witnesses to Pecola’s disintegration and as a result, they will spend the rest of their lives grappling with what happened to Pecola.

Drawing inspiration from Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Sia Figiel utilizes some of the same techniques and covers similar themes in her novel Where we Once Belonged which primarily centers around Alofa, a girl growing up in a village Samoa.  Although the narrative voices of Claudia from The Bluest Eye and Alofa from Where we Once Belonged differ in their presence and focus, they both offer a young female adolescent’s perspective on life in their communities and how the influences of different cultural expectations affect their own identity.

Claudia is presented with two different mental capacities. Claudia is shown to have a very complex mind, understanding the world around her. However, Claudia is also shown having the mind of a naïve nine-year-old. Why does Claudia have this double personality in this story?

The story I read independently is called The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. The story is told by two narrators: Claudia Macteer who is a grown woman reflecting back on her childhood, and an unknown narrator. This Novel is about how America's standards of beauty affect African Americans. In this novel the community has accepted blond hair, blue eyes, and light skin, as the only forms of beauty and they pass these beliefs onto their children. This theme is very prevalent in today’s society because the media portrays it often through things like People’s Most Beautiful Woman. Lupita Nyong’o was named people's most beautiful woman. She is the first Kenyan most beautiful woman as well as the first most beautiful woman with dark skin. When Lupita

Sexual assault is a sensitive subject when it comes to most people. No one can tell whether the person they come across has been sexually assaulted before. There is signs indicating such events like withdrawing from normal activities, or feeling “down”, low self-esteem, anxiety or worry about situations that did not seem to cause anxiety in the past, avoiding specific situations or place, etc. Sexual assault is never an easy bridge to cross and the road to recovery is never an easy route. In the “Bluest Eye” written by Toni Morrison, it tells a story in the narrative of Claudia MacTeer. She tells the story of childhood memories about what happened to Pecola through seasons and the influential

It’s difficult to envision a world where idealized female imagery is not plastered everywhere, but our present circumstance is a relatively new occurrence. Before the mass media existed, our ideas of beauty were restricted to our own communities. Until the introduction of photography in 1839, people were not exposed to real-life images of faces and bodies. Most people did not even own mirrors. Today, however, we are more obsessed with our appearance than ever before. But the concern about appearance is quite normal and understandable given society’s standards. According to Jane Kilborne, “Every period of history has had its own standards of what is and is not beautiful, and every contemporary society has its own distinctive concept of the

In the novel The Bluest Eye, the author created different sections that tell a story and connect with the chapters. In these sections are four different seasons, autumn, winter, spring and summer. These four seasons represent different events in the book and are symbolic to what the novel entails. The novel is set up with very good structure and the story flows along with the various interpretations of each different season. Having these different seasons and sections in the novel sets it apart from other books because of its uniqueness. Although the seasons in the book are in order the events and characters are very unnatural and do not follow along a straight or ordinary path. The author almost reverses what is expected in each season because instead of following with the ideas that relate to each season, she instead shows how opposite and uncanny each event that takes place is.

In the novel, The Bluest Eye, we learn about the lives of black, middle school aged girls. The novel takes place in 1941, during a time where racial and prejudice situations are prevalent in the lives of African Americans. The children experience a childhood full of racialism, great pain, and subordination,

In the book The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison in 1970, consists of multiple interlocking stories, one of the most powerful being Cholly Breedlove ,Pecola’s father. Cholly Breedlove is a man who has suffered through abhorrent bearings such as degradation, condescension, abuse, and isolation. In general, most people would be unable to mentally and emotionally persist through the misfortune he was confronted against. Isolated in a society defined by racism, economic inequality, and fanaticism, Cholly due to his race and social status was not only shunned but considered barbarous.Comparatively, in the novella Chronicle Of A Death Foretold written by Gabriel García Márquez, the plot revolves around the deliberation of the death of Santiago Nasar. Santiago Nasar was an mysterious

As is the case for any work that is derivative of another, stage adaptations of novels are often burdened by their prominent and celebrated origins. The process of bending literature to fit the contours of theater often results in a product that is diluted and far less poignant than the original. However, once in a while, a play like The Bluest Eye surprises us by masterfully redefining the function of the central characters, modifying the nature of the work without unduly sacrificing the vibrancy of the story that it seeks to tell, and rearranging essential elements in juxtaposition to illustrate and emphasize important ideas. Diamond’s script indeed accomplishes her aim of presenting the story “as a tale of the damaging trickle-down