It also provides the reader with Francie’s real-life experiences that children, not only from her era, can connect and relate to. This novel holds truth, violence and heartbreaking
In the novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Morrison details the life of a young African American girl named Pecola who grows in Lorain, Ohio in the years following the Great Depression. The book’s purpose is to explain how and why Cholly Breedlove, Pecola’s father, came to molest his own daughter. An alcoholic and barbaric, Cholly's baleful and belligerent behavior is a reflection of his troublesome upbringing as a child. While only four days old, Cholly’s parents abandon him, leaving Aunt Jimmy to rescue and adopt him. Shortly after Aunt Jimmy dies, two white men devastate Cholly’s first sexual encounter, who coerce Cholly to continue while they smile contemptuously.
Inner conflict also causes the characters behavior and thought process to change at some point throughout the three novels. This leads the characters to their condition that is described at the end or the beginning of the novels plots. Toni Morrison shows Pecola’s inner conflict
As time goes on, a person over time starts to understand the reality known as life, she should mature and leave behind a time that once used to be known as childhood. In this essay the author and her family will be traveling to different places which will show how her mom’s foolishness had an affect on the lives of her and her siblings. First, they go to the desert where things get out of control and Jeannette gets injured, then they go to Welch where Rose Mary tells her kids to do something that is not matured and adult like and at last they go to New York, where Rose Mary was still homeless by making decisions that had a bad impact on her and the others around her. The first place that they go to is The Desert.
In an era of oppression, Morrison’s characters achieve love through surrendering of a fake idea. Pilate must shed her baggage in order to fully emancipate herself. Pilate unknowingly carried around the bones of her father assuming the skeleton was the white man her and Macon Dead Jr. killed. After Milkman told Pilate that the bones belong to her father, Milkman noticed that “she seemed happy now”, and “peace circled her” (334). Pilate is finally starting to become free, the final straw being the placement of Sing’s snuffbox on Macon’s grave.
This book shows a girls struggle with an abusive father, the haunting of her mothers tragic death and the basic struggles of a young teen becoming a women. During a time of segregation in the South, right after Jim Crow laws have been banned and Negros have been granted the right to vote. The book is about Lily’s journey of discovering herself and finding the truth about her mother. Within the first few chapters of the book we discover that her father is an abusive alcoholic, who neglects her basic needs. A Negro housemaid named Rosaleen raises Lily.
The author describes Cholly as child like," his reactions were based on what he felt at the moment" ( Morrison, p161), Cholly was mixed with two emotoins hatred and tenderson,. ( Morrison, p 163). After he raped Pecola, he would not pick her up from the kitchen floor, but would cover her up with a heavy quilt,leaving her alone. Despite Cholly's childhood , his behavior is no excuess to the abuse he inflicted on Pecola. I feel sad for Cholly's abuse as a young child, but I cannot excess his actions, that would effect another person in a negative
Claudia MacTeer: Claudia MacTeer is the narrator of most of the story. She was recalling the events that resulted in the rape and madness of her friend, Pecola Breedlove. She grew up in the same town as Pecola; however, their lives were very different. The biggest difference is the love and strength of the two families. The MacTeer’s always have a sense of love even when they are mad at each other.
These oppressions persist today and so do their effects on black families and even more in young black people. Because Morrison makes the issue not only beauty but also our perception of ugli-ness in general, the problem of the “ugly little girl asking for beauty” is a cultural problem. Every time a young person looks in the mirror and sees that they are not as beautiful as a movie star or not as as beautiful as the television, magazine, and billboard ads tells them they should be, they feel the fear of rejection and abandonment, and through this novel, readers have experienced the emotional pain of that which destroyed Pecola. “Suffering with Pecola, knowing that pain con-sciously, feeling it, acknowledging it openly and directly, most of
Through the use of these literary writing structures, Toni Morrison depicted Sula and Pecola as racial scapegoats to society and used these characters to her advantage in taking a step forward towards ending segregation. Morrison, a Nobel Prize winner for her novels, made sure to create a legacy for herself in which she attempted to stand against the societal norms in her community. Her words have provided another perspective for the lives of the African American community and have allowed a step towards freedom during the Jim Crow Era. At this point, it is reasonable to understand that Morrison tells a story that no one else tells; she captures and depicts the lives of African American citizens that no one else had the courage to express during this time. Very much like the novels she wrote, she provided a voice to the black community as they did not have it before, but this time, it was not happening in media res.
Pecola is challenged by the idea that her mother prefers her work life, that they have an outdated house, and that she does not look like the Shirley Temple doll with blue eyes. Morrison went into great detail when describing the elegance and beauty that was present in the Fisher home, to demonstrate that those who do not fit into the ideal American life often feel shame. The Breedlove family lived a very simple life, and in no way did they fit into what society believed to be correct. Mrs. Breedlove was the only member of the family that truly understood what the American Dream looked like. The work that she did for the Fishers lead her to envy the American Dream.
Toni Morrison, the first black women Nobel Prize winner, in her first novel, The Bluest Eye depicts the tragic condition of the blacks in racist America. It examines how the ideologies perpetuated by the dominant groups and adopted by the marginal groups influence the identity of the black women. Through the depictions of white beauty icons, Morrison’s black characters lose themselves to self-hatred. They try to obliterate their heritage, and eventually like Pecola Breedlove, the child protagonist, who yearns for blue eyes, has no recourse except madness. This assignment focusses on double consciousness and its devastating effects on Pecola.
