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This 3 page paper discusses the elements of violence in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eyes. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Eyes, confronts the types of violence perpetrated especially against children by the very people who are supposed to love them the most: their parents. Culture shock is among the least
of the Breedloves problems when they leave the country and move to the big city. Moving from the South into the North, of course, does add to the stress level
and as such, it trickles down to the youngest members of the family. The novel is told from the point of view of the two sisters, Claudia and Frieda, as
they unfold a story of torture, dysfunction, isolation and the slow progression toward madness by the Breedloves daughter, Pecola. Through it all Pecolas story is revealed, layer upon layer until
the reader finally understands why Pecola retreats into madness for the want of being beautiful and having the bluest eyes. Violence takes on many forms in this novel. The
first and most blatant of these is the violence of racism. Pecola wants blue eyes, but she is not of the ethnic persuasion where that would be possible. The whole
family is thrown into a place where bigotry and racism conspires to keep them poor and angry. The Dick and Jane reader that Pecola and the other children study
in school show happy white children. Pecola surmises that happiness comes from being white, or acting white. Being beautiful meant being like the whites. Thus, the second form of violence
is introduced: body image. Morrison is showing how the imagery which was shown to young black girls, particularly during the mid 1940s and 1950s, was an idealized image of beauty
that they could never hope to attain. As such, they grew up feeling as if they were somehow less because they were not blonde haired and blue eyed. Morrison is
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