Jose Lopez Mrs. Orr English 12 AP Period 3 8 October 2014 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Toni Morrison depicts the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young and unhappy black girl in The Bluest Eye. Pecola has to deal with an abusive fathe,he even sexually abuses her and causes a unwanted pregnancy. Pecola grows up in an abusive and hateful family. She desperately wants to run away and never have to worry again to rid her of her problems. Writers often show the values of a culture through the separation or by ostracizing a specific character. In the saddening story, The Bluest Eye, the writer shows the growing social problems throughout the story. Through explaining the life of Pecola Breedlove, who is the protagonist in The Bluest Eye, the writer makes it clear that racism and sexism had impacted the 1940s. Racism was a very important and crucial part in The Bluest Eye, and the 1940's. (Densho) A young hoping girl, Pecola for example, should have thriving exciting early childhood and teenage years, however, since she is a black woman, others don’t respect her, they look down on her, and this causes her to start to hate herself. It causes her childhood to be an unhappy one. Pecola Breedlove has taken on undeserved …show more content…
Critical, sexist views exist within the life of Pecola Breedlove; many of which are not the fondest of memories. All women that are born with Pecola’s ethnicity are abused both by the white male and female characters. In this period of time, women were not equals of man. Sexism is still as prominent in the mid 1900's as the early 1900's. (Densho) Even the most innocent of kids had created dark memories in Pecola’s life. In The Bluest Eye, a group of boys was seen harassing Pecola because she was a black female. "The Bluest Eye has inspired an increase of literature written by African American women about their identity and experience as women of color."