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A 10 page research paper that addresses five specific issues/questions concerning Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye. Issues addresses are: how racism functions in the story; racism or sexism as the greatest threat to the children; symbolism of Shirley Temple; Cholly's childhood; and use of stereotypes. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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against which all of the action and relationships take place. Racism is systemic to 1940s American culture and is shown in a multitude of ways throughout the novel. For example,
a prevalent theme that underlies the narratives is the standards for female beauty are completely dominated by white racial features, which leaves no room for any other consideration or
definition of beauty. Everywhere in the world of Pecola Breedlove are message that pertain to beauty as something that is exclusively white. For instance, Pecolas mother, Pauline (Polly) Breedlove,
idealizes the white movie stars. Morrison comments that Pauline was never "able to look at a face and not assign it some category of scale of absolute beauty, and the
scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen" (Morrison 97). As for herself and her daughter, Pauline fully accepts mainstream societys stance that anyone of African descent
is not beautiful. This, unfortunately, is an evaluation that she passes on to Pecola. They each feel that "...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). Throughout the novel, black characters who are described as having lighter skin or eyes,
that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the Breedloves. The dominance of
white cultural norms over black realities are symbolically shown in the way that Morrison uses three versions of lines from the mainstream reader, the "Dick-and-Jane" primer. Malmgren points out that
in the first stance that this is used the line is readable represent mainstream white families; however, in the second instance, the line is confused, "but still readable," which represents
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