Soaphead In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

After the birth of her child Pecola Breedlove tries to find solace in her quest for blue eyes. She visits a West Indian preacher, Soaphead church to see if he could give her the blue eyes she had always wanted. Soaphead, an unscrupulous creep was himself crazy to believe in his ability to work wonders. He assured Pecola Breedlove that God would give her blue eyes, but only she would be able to see them. By the end of the novel, Pecola Breedlove is seen talking to an imaginary friend, asking over and over again, if her eyes were the bluest of all. Morrison says that she wrote The Bluest Eye, in part, because it was a book that she would have wanted to read but that did not exist in another form at the time she was writing. The book is an important

He wants that Milkman should become a member of Seven Days, a Black Vigilante group which believed in avenging the death of each Black person by killing the Whites in the same manner. Milkman however does not become a member of this group. When he was only twelve years old Milkman falls in love with his cousin Hagar. He continues to visit his aunt Pilate who tells him about a cave where Milkman’s father and Pilate had found gold but did not carry it with them. Later in the story, Milkman and Hagar go in search of that gold. It was supposed to be in the native land of their forefathers in Virginia. He does not find gold but does find his family’s history. He learns from the nursery rhyme sung by the children there, about his great grandfather Solomon who fled from slavery into freedom. The story ends with the enriching knowledge of his family history which made him stronger and self-assured as an individual. In 1977 Song of Solomon was also selected as the Book of the Month Club main selection, a recognition for Black writer, Toni Morrison and it become a paperback best seller with 5,70,000 copies in print in five different languages. Toni Morrison received the National Book Critics Circle award for