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The Bluest Eyes, By Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eyes, portrays an authentic story of growing up as black in a postwar and great depression America. This novel focuses on one year of a group of children’s lives – Claudia, Frieda, and Pecola. Morrison uses their eyes penetrate the self-hatred that has been afflicted and inflicted upon the black community in this country, starting from their childhood. The two sisters, Claudia and Frieda, are the voice of the author. They bitterly recite the story of Pecola Breedlove, who has a bitter mother whose identity solely lies within the white family she serves and a drunkard father who rapes and impregnates his own daughter. Morrison switches the perspective to the third-person viewpoint to reveal the flashback stories
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