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A 5 page essay that discusses abuse, racism and feminism, which are all evident features of three literary works: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues," and Raymond Carver's "Cathedral." The characters in each of these works are, of course, very different, but the authors share a desire to explore the parameters of difference, which suggests to the reader various reasons for why the evil of racism continue to persist. Morrison and Baldwin directly dramatize the destructive effects of racism and how it can eat away at a character's sense of self, but Carver approaches this topic from a different offers a glimpse of the growth and learning that becomes possible when people open their minds. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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but the authors share a desire to explore the parameters of difference, which suggests to the reader various reasons for why the evil of racism continue to persist. Morrison and
Baldwin directly dramatize the destructive effects of racism and how it can eat away at a characters sense of self, but Carver approaches this topic from a different offers a
glimpse of the growth and learning that becomes possible when people open their minds. Morrisons narrative is set in the 1930s and her protagonist is a little girl, Pecola
Breedlove, whose life is characterized by the tension created by the fact that societal standards of beauty, purpose and humanity are all defined exclusively through a prism of white experience.
To put this simply and frankly, Pecola sees herself as ugly. Her classmates convey to her that she is ugly, the people in the community see her as ugly and
her family see her and themselves as ugly. "It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one (of the Breedloves) a cloak of ugliness to wear, and
they had each accepted it without question" (Morrison 34). In other words, the Breedlove family, particularly Pecolas mother, Pauline, who loves movies, have assimilated the societal message that white
is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, are "ugly." The icon of little girl beauty for the 1930s
was blond-haired, blue-eyed Shirley Temple, and Pecola develops the idea that if her eyes were blue, her mother would love her, as would others, and all things within her life
would be good. Pauline interprets what is beautiful or good strictly in terms of the white standards that she sees at in movies. Absorbed in self-hatred, Pauline identifies with the
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