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A 5 page essay that discusses Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, which are similar in that both authors use the structure of their novels as a tool that facilitates the achievement of their thematic purposes. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison’s references to the Dick-and-Jane reading primer aids Morrison in contrasting the mainstream cultural ideal, that is, the world represented in the Dick-and-Jane stories, against the violence of her protagonist’s world. This contrast also serves to underscore the way in which mainstream white ideals are assimilated by black Americans and contribute to their dysfunction and unhappiness. Similarly, in The Color Purple, Walker uses her novel’s epistolary format to dramatize her protagonist’s evolution from an insecure, brutalized girl toward an independent, secure woman with her own voice. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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as a tool that facilitates the achievement of their thematic purposes. In The Bluest Eye, Morrisons references to the Dick-and-Jane reading primer aids Morrison in contrasting the mainstream cultural ideal,
that is, the world represented in the Dick-and-Jane stories, against the violence of her protagonists world. This contrast also serves to underscore the way in which mainstream white ideals are
assimilated by black Americans and contribute to their dysfunction and unhappiness. Similarly, in The Color Purple, Walker uses her novels epistolary format to dramatize her protagonists evolution from an insecure,
brutalized girl toward an independent, secure woman with her own voice. Both novels focus on the lives of African American girls in the early part of the twentieth century. Pecola
Breedlove is Morrisons protagonist. The first primer section begins with an epigraph from a Dick-and-Jane primer describing their middle-class house and Morrison follows this with a description of Pecolas life.
This example and subsequent epigraphs contrast the misery of Pecolas life against this white, mainstream cultural image. With these references from the Dick-and-Jane primer, Morrison concisely and subtly refers to
how society indoctrinates and socializes the next generation, as this is a "basic tool of ideological indoctrination" (Malmgren 251). All of the Breedlove family have inculcated the societal message
that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with being black is against the cultural norm and, therefore, "ugly."
Pecolas mother, Pauline has thoroughly assimilated this message as she evaluated each face she saw according to a "scale of absolute beauty" that she "absorbed in full from the silver
screen" (Morrison 97). In other words, Pauline perceives beauty strictly according to white standards. Lost in self-hared, Pauline identifies with her white employers, and lives vicariously through their lives (Gillan
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