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This 6 page essay analyzes and discusses an excerpt from Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye. The writer argues that this excerpt concisely sums up the novel's main thematic context. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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raped by her father. However, this trauma is simply the final push in Pecolas psychic deterioration, as Morrisons narrative indicates the pressures that have been inherent in Pecolas entire childhood,
which includes the rejection of the self due to the societal dictates of what is valuable and beautiful, and the fact that none of these understood social values are associated
with African Americans. The context of Pecolas story is set within a societal framework that marginalized black experience, conveying the clear message that blacks were not be considered beautiful,
intelligent or significant. Pecola assimilates this ethos and particularly fixates on the notion of blue eyes as the epitome of beauty. She imagines that if she had beautiful blue eyes,
people would regard her as beautiful and her life would be different, and she would be treated with love and the respect that is the natural right of human beings.
As this suggests, The Bluest Eye describes what it is like to be female, black and therefore, defined as ugly. As Morrison
has indicated, "Being a little Black girl in this country-it was rough. The psychological tricks you have to play in order to get through-and nobody said how it felt to
be that" (Bloom 17). The Bluest Eye fulfills this need, as it describes life from Pecola perspective, which includes how Pecola, as well as her family, has assimilated the societal
message that beauty must be defined in terms of Caucasian features, that is, white skin, blond hair and, of course, blue eyes. "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 39). The passage selected from The Bluest
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