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5 pages in length. Analytically examines three social issues explored in Toni Morrison's classic 'The Bluest Eye' from an Afro-centric perspective. Issues are social class & structure, stereotypes, and race. Uses three pertinent references (listed in bibliography) to support ideas.
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socially structured America that is in love with stereotypical blond, blue-eyed children. To dramatize her points, Morrisons writing is sadly haunting and potently lyrical, filled with characters who I shall
describe that rise full-fleshed from her descriptions, and seem to become a very real part of the readers consciousness with the likes of Pecola Breedlove, an abused black child in
The Bluest Eye. Throughout the book, Toni Morrison uses her intimacy with the discourses of others to weave into her work some competing but also
complementary ideas--that attempt to adjudicate competing claims and witness concerns. Realizing that, it would not make sense to read The Bluest Eye and then look to blame somebody. I believe
that one of the great virtues of the book is its capacity to empathize and to allow its readers to empathize--something not possible in the absence of history and context--with
all of its characters, perhaps especially those who seem to be the most irredeemable. 2. Social Class & Structure * A system by which mass culture and minorities
are each prejudiced and pre-destined to start life with different opportunities. Socioeconomic factors contribute strongly to the reinforcement of this structure. Interacting with
mass culture for anyone who is not included in it and for African-Americans especially, usually requires a leaving of ones own self and the ability to see themselves in the
body of another. The Bluest Eyes most obvious instance of this is as it relates to structure and essentially to the separation of races is in the apparently infinite reproduction
of images of feminine beauty in everyday objects and consumer goods: white baby dolls with their inhumanely hard bodies and uncanny blue eyes, Shirley Temple cups, Mary Jane Candies, and
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