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Original Title:	The Bluest Eye
ISBN:	0452287065 (ISBN13: 9780452287068)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Pauline Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, Pecola Breedlove
Setting:	Lorain, Ohio(United States) Ohio(United States)

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

Paperback | Pages: 216 pages

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Title	:	The Bluest Eye
Author	:	Toni Morrison
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 216 pages
Published	:	September 6th 2005 by Plume (first published June 1st 1970)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. African American. Literature. Novels. Race

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The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change- in painful, devastating ways.
What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Tony Morrisons's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.

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365. The Bluest Eye, Toni MorrisonThe Bluest Eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison in 1970. Morrison, a single mother of two sons, wrote the novel while she taught at Howard University. The novel is set in 1941 and centers around the life of a young African-American girl named Pecola who grows up during the years following the Great Depression in Lorain, Ohio. Due to Pecola's harsh characteristics and dark skin, she is consistently regarded as "ugly". As a result, she develops an inferiority

"Being a minority in both caste and class, we moved about anyway on the hem of life, struggling to consolidate our weaknesses and hang on, or to creep singly up into the major folds of the garment. Our peripheral existence, however, was something we had learned to deal with--probably because it was abstract."- Toni Morrison, The Bluest EyeI'm rereading Morrison's books in chronological order in 2016 and I created a private group here on Goodreads for a few of us who are interested in doing the

There cant be anyone, Im sure, who doesnt know what it feels like to be disliked, even rejected. Momentarily or for sustained periods of time, Toni Morrison stated in her author note, as she explained the context of this novel. Imagine a Nobel Laureate reading her work, and then explaining her art. I listened to this via Audible and I was spellbound. Inflections with each character switch and mood, exquisite dialogue performanceI might as well have been in the same room with her.The bluest eye.

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The most insidious form of prejudice is the one that's internalised and self-directed. The Bluest Eye examines the ways in which latent cultural measures of beauty and self-worth can become reinforced and self-perpetuating. White people figure rarely in the narrative, and yet whiteness is pervasive as the very currency of self-worth: a means of defining value, and of establishing one's own superiority over others. The novel digs out the dirt to examine the roots of this behaviour, but provides