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The Bluest Eye: Life Story Of A Girl Named Pecola

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The Bluest Eye is a story about a girl named Pecola and her life story in a society where she is at the bottom of a scale. The story explains how she got impregnated by her father called the seed. Also how her baby never grew and ended up dying and also what she went through as a child never being able to reach the beauty standards of society. The story exceeds certain points of views from Pecola 's friends, family, and her own. Pecola reaches a certain point in society where she wants to be seen as beautiful and have a better life than she has, so she wishes she could have blue eyes so she can be beautiful. Pecola makes her own world in which she has blue eyes and she is beautiful.The book teaches what black women are seen as and beauty standards for society. …show more content…

My art represents the overall theme and what the book 's message was trying to explain to society. My art demonstrates how most black women in america 's society are all treated the same horrible way. The roots represent the long past and how society treats them all together that 's how all the roots are connected. Black women will never be a full flower because they will always be seen by society as the lowest level of a human being. On the other hand white women are seen as flowers because they are always seen as the top of society when they are planted they automatically reach the top of the barren soil. The sun represents society and how it always watches black women

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