Ugliness In The Bluest Eye

In history, if you were different, for example by race, you would be treated differently and probably not expected. This has happened mostly in US history, from when African American got there freedom to now, but with different types of people, like Latinos, gays, trans and much more. For Pecola, a little black girl in Toni Morrison’s book, The Bluest Eye, she isn’t treated the same by almost everyone she meets because of her race and ugliness. Her dream is to have blue eyes so she can be loved and accepted by all because her actual color contributes to how she is taken advantage of and manipulated.

All people around Pecola, except Claudia and Freedia, treats her disrespectfully because of her “ugliness”. Almost every student would make fun of each other, but mostly about Pecola. Even the teachers and staff of the school doesn’t like her and treats her differently. “She also knew that when one of the girls at school wanted to be particularly insulting a boy, or wanted to get an immediate response from him she would say. ‘Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove! Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove!’ and never fail to get peals of laughter from those in earshot, and mock

Claudia and Frieda wanted to see Pecola. Someone told them that she is at Ms. Breedlove's workplace. The girls go there and see that Pecola wasn’t treated as good as some little white girl. She dropped some pie on the little white girl and Ms. Breedlove hit her and yelled at her. “As Pecola put the laundry bag in the wagon, we could hear Ms. Breedlove hushing and soothing the tears of the little pink-and-yellow girl.” Pecola saw that Ms. Breedlove didn’t want anything with her and took care of the little white girl. This shows that Pecola is very unwanted and different from the world. Her mother showed this with the white girl. Ms. Breedlove was responsible to keep that house clean, but did overreacted a little bit to Pecola, which kind of wasn’t