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    The notion of truth comes up in many contexts, including philophy, science, and religion. Naturally, it is discussed in literature too. In The Bluest Eye and A Streetcar Named Desire, the reader in invited to reflect on this concept throught the different characters, who each have a different way of dealing with their very own vision of the “truth”. The But not all characters deal with reality the same way, and, most importantly, not all characters consider the truth as purely realitity. Truth

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    Paper Toni Morrison 's Beloved and The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison is known for her use of poetic language. In many of her writings Morrison captures the pursuit of African Americans identities(Parnell). Considering Morrison never experienced the horrific tragedies she writes about, she is a witness to many identities that were destroyed by society depiction of them. The themes that Toni Morrison illustrates in her works Beloved and The Bluest Eye demonstrates how Toni Morrison works show individuals

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    The Bluest Eye Symbolism

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    In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the author has all the main characters be African Americans, and live in a deprived time of segregation to encourage the reader to change their view to treat African Americans kindly and have a different idea of perfection than white skin and blue eyes. Throughout the novel, the author focuses on the clash between different cultures, and the the colors that symbolize each. First, the reader reads the title, The Bluest Eye. This initially starts the

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    Beauty in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Some people will argue with you that there is always an ugly duckling somewhere in a family. I see it different, I see these people as unique. In Toni Morrison's book, The Bluest Eye there is the issue of being beautiful and ugly. In this essay I will discuss how Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye initiates that during 1941 white was beautiful and black was ugly in the surrounding of two families. The issue of beauty versus ugliness is portraying

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    Bluest Eye and Giovanni's Room There are several novels written by two of the worlds most critically acclaimed literary writers of the 20th century James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. But I would like to focus on just two of their works, James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. In these novels in some way the authors suggest a theme of how the past is rooted in the present. Now each of these authors shows this in a different way. This is because of the contrast in

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    by men to lead a sophisticated and selfish of black poverty, disability and accident of absolute self-image. In The Bluest Eye Pecola is represented as a pathetic figure who feels that darkness has blighted her to ugliness and neglect. Pecola in The Bluest Eye internalizes the western standards of adorableness beneath the ancestral burden of the ascendant culture life The Bluest Eye is an able announcement of Toni Morrison’s indigenous cultural feminism, an

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    The Bluest Eyes

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    In the Bluest Eyes, Tori Morrison portrays society’s disgusting attributes such as sexual violence, racism and trauma by examining the life of Pecola. Pecola’s obsession of having blue eyes has grown throughout the novel. At first she believes by consuming candy she can one day have blue eyes. After Cholly rapes her, she believes her eyes have actually turned blue. At first blue eyes in the novel symbolizes society’s beauty standard, which is whiteness. For someone to be considered beautiful or lovable

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    Two unique aspects of style, diction and sentence structure as used by Morrison to create the unique world of The Bluest Eye and help the reader obtain a greater understanding of the narrative of the story. In order to analyze these parts of the novels, I have chosen a specific section of the book, Pages 77-79. These few pages cover when the narrator Claudia and her sister Frieda, discover their mother’s tenant Mr. Henry “fooling around” with China and The Maginot Line, two women with unfavorable

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    Toni Morrison, the author of The Bluest Eye writes about the wealth and beauty of the young girls and how racism and brutal rape happens to Pecola. The racism that is shown in the book, isn't whites against blacks, it’s light colored blacks against dark colored ones. White people with blue eyes were classified as beauty and the girls were ugly because they didn’t have blue eyes. Pecola Breedlove moved in with the MacTeers due to her father trying to burn the house that they lived in down. The house

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    While looking at Toni Morrison's “The Bluest Eye”, Kiri Davis’s “A Girl Like Me” both of these authors are looking into the deeper meaning of perfection in order to bring light to racism and social standards. During the novels and documentary the reader or listener is directly impacted by the way the main characters view themselves and the changes they are starting to witness over time. Throughout “The Bluest Eye” the author describes beauty a lot during the novel. Having said that beauty in the

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