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A 4 page paper which analyzes the character of Pecola in Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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weaves its way through the four seasons and traces the daughters (Pecola Breedlove) descent into madness" (Literature Annotations). While there are numerous characters and storylines throughout Toni Morrisons "The Bluest
Eye" it is the character of Pecola who seems to embody all the most negative and hopeful realities of the novel and of African American women. The following paper analyzes
the character of Pecola. Pecola in Toni Morrisons "The Bluest Eye" Pecola is a girl who endures, from the beginning, many hardships that will ultimately lead to her
mental breakdown. She comes from an abusive family, wherein her father, and alcoholic, sexually abuses her and this sort of experience goes on throughout her life, reducing her to almost
nothing in the end. The novel is named for her hope that in possessing blue eyes she will be seen as pretty and thus not black and ugly. One
of the most important, and yet subtle, elements in Morrisons work which illustrates the character and the hopes of Pecola comes in the form of excerpts from books about Dick
and Jane. Anyone who is of an older generation will remember these simplistic books for learning to read, books that present a pretty little blond girl and the simplistic pretty
life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines, to illustrate the false images presented to youth, especially
black youth, in relationship to what makes a person pretty and perfect. This is a social reality that affects Pecola and thus stands as a very strong symbolic illustration of
Pecola, her desires, and her deterioration. For example, in the beginning of the book the excerpt from Dick and Jane reads, "Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the
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