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	The Bluest Eye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bluest Eye is a 1970 novel by Toni Morrison which details a year in the life of a young fl girl in Lorain, Ohio named Pecola.
		The title of the novel "The Bluest Eye" is based on Pecola's fervent wishes for beautiful blue eyes.
		The two MacTeer girls are often seen together and while most of the story is told through Claudia's eyes, her sister Frieda plays a large role in the novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Bluest_Eye (778 words)

	African American Review: The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Readers of Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, are often so overwhelmed by the narrative's emotional content--the child Pecola's incestuous rape, ensuing pregnancy, and subsequent abandonment by her community and descent into madness--that they miss the music in this lyrically "songified" narrative.
		The Bluest Eye is the genesis of her effort "to do what the music did for fls, what we used to be able to do with each other in private and in that civilization that existed underneath the white civilization" (Morrison, "Language" 371).
		I posit Claudia as the narrative's blues subject, its bluest "I" and representative blues figure, and Pecola as the abject tabula rasa on which the community's blues are inscribed.
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	Historical Fiction & The Bluest Eye
		Before we can ask ourselves if "The Bluest Eye," can be considered as Historical fiction, we must first establish what Historical fiction is. Historical fiction is a genre that stems from fiction.
		Toni Morrison's novel "The Bluest Eye," is such a complex piece of work that I am sure it may fit into several genres.
		Although one of Morrison's main themes in "The Bluest Eye" was internalized racism, she also focused on other historical elements that have had a negative effect on the fl society, like using the character Maureen Peal as a representation for the children of the slaves and their masters.
	web.cocc.edu /lisal/thebluesteye/historical_fiction.htm (1228 words)

	Bluest Eye, The - Toni Morrison - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bluest Eye, The - Toni Morrison : Rape, Lies and Racism
		This novel written in the mid-sixties is the tragic tale of Pecola Breedlove a young girl who has been continually abused by her family and her community.
		Pecola is the central character and an obvious metaphor for the general abuse of fl people in society both at the time the...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/bluest-eye-the-toni-morrison (317 words)

	The Bluest Eye
		The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
		It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove — a fl girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others — who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different.
		This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Bluest Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Published in 1970, The Bluest Eye came about at a critical moment in the history of American civil rights.
		In a new Afterword to the novel's 1993 reprint, Morrison says that she got the idea for The Bluest Eye in part from an elementary school classmate.
		The Bluest Eye enjoyed some (but far from universal) critical success on its first publication, but the novel was also a commercial failure.
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	The Bluest Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		She had brown eyes, just like his, and those of a good many million others; but in the pictures he sketched quickly in his mind every time they greeted one another, she had one startling blue eye, gleaming unreal.
		They alone had noticed the mottling of her skin, and called to her on account of it, they with the tactless sharp eyes of children.
		Drawing her thumb across her open lips, wetting the fleshy pad there, she slid it across the blue of the eye before he could stop her, smudging across the clean lines, a halo of pastel.
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	The Bluest Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It also shows the young author drawing a bead on the subjects that would dominate much of her career: racial hatred, historical memory, and the dazzling or degrading power of language itself.
		Set in Lorain, Ohio, in 1941, The Bluest Eye is something of an ensemble piece.
		No wonder she yearns to be the very opposite of what she is--yearns, in other words, to be a white child, possessed of the blondest hair and the bluest eye.
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	Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye
		Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Beloved - William Dahill-Baue
		Synopsisand analysis of The Bluest Eye - James Blind
		StudyQuestions for The Bluest Eye - Cary Henson
	www.luminarium.org /contemporary/tonimorrison/bluest.htm (176 words)

	Toni Morrison: An Introduction
		In The Bluest Eye the "magical" appears in the failure of marigolds to bloom and the belief by some members of the community in Soaphead Church's powers.
		Many characters in The Bluest Eye are involved in a quest--Pecola for love and an identity, Cholly for his father, Claudia for meaning, Soaphead Church for a place.
		In The Bluest Eye, characters in the fl community accept their status as the Other, which has been imposed upon them by the white community.
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	The Bluest Eye Summary & Essays - Toni Morrison
		Because Pecola, like Pauline, yearns to be seen as beautiful, she longs for the blue eyes of the most admired child in the 1940s: Shirley Temple.
		After visiting Soaphead Church, a "spiritualist" who claims he can make Pecola's eyes blue, Pecola believes that she has the bluest eyes in the world and now everyone will love her.
		The Bluest Eye portrays the tragedy which results when African Americans have no resources with which to fight the standards presented to them by the white culture that scorns them.
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	Reading Group Guide \| THE BLUEST EYE by Toni Morrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Shunned by the town's prosperous fl families,as well as its white families, Pecola lives with her alcoholic father and embittered, overworked mother in a shabby two-room storefront that reeks of the hopeless destitution that overwhelms their lives.
		The Bluest Eye was my effort to say something about that; to say something about why she had not, or possibly never would have, the experience of what she possessed and also why she prayed for so radical an alteration.
		She believes herself ugly and unworthy of love and respect, but is convinced that her life would be magically transformed if she possessed blue eyes.
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	The Bluest Eye
		Pecola prays for blue eyes so the children at school will not make fun of her, so the teacher will call on her, and her parents would love her because she would not be ugly.
		There was one trait in particular: "It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes held those pictures, and knew the sights-if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different.
		Her yearning for blue eyes shows how us what we think of as valuable and beautiful and what we consider to be disdainful and ugly.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~bcash/thebluesteye.htm (2579 words)

	EXODUS eShop - The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) - Book
		I highly recommend The Bluest Eye to anyone with a taste for beautifully written prose, something unlike anything you've ever read before and a tragic, all too realistic tale.
		The Bluest Eyes is her first novel which was published back in 1970.
		The Bluest Eyes is a heartbreaking story of a little fl girl who is longing for a pair of blue eyes.
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	The Bluest Eye : Ed Rutherford : Theatre - Centerstage Chicago
		The set for the show is fairly simple, in large part due to necessity (the Arts Exchange shows are performed on the set of whatever is playing on Steppenwolf's main stage at the time); various clothes and fabrics hung on clotheslines represent rooms and beds.
		When her drunk father (haunted by racial oppression from his own past) first divides her family and then commits a heinous crime upon Pecola herself, the girl starts to unravel completely, and her prayers to be given blue eyes like those of the pretty white girls are eventually granted in the most heartrending manner imaginable.
		By the time the title phrase "the bluest eye" is actually uttered, you'll probably be crying.
	centerstage.net /theatre/articles/bluesteye.html (472 words)

	SwissEduc: Morrison, Toni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Teaching the Bluest Eye: Linda G. Wagner, Professor of English at Michigan State University.
		A short story she "dashed off" about a little fl girl who wanted blue eyes would be her first completed literary work, and the seed of her first novel, The Bluest Eye.
		Edgar Whan, Marilyn Atlas, and Vattel (Ted) Rose discuss The Bluest Eye, University of Ohio, August 31, 1997.
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	The Bluest Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		America's love for blond, blue-eyed children lead Pecola to pray for blue eyes so that she will be beautiful, so that she will be noticed, that her world might be different.
		Morrison takes us into Pecola's world through the eyes of her peer Claudia, using imagery of the 1930's and 1940's to capture America's popular ideal, and demonstrating through Pecola the destructive force of this ideal.
		Blond, blue-eyed baby dolls are still the most popular, and blond, blue-eyed children are used the most in television sitcoms as the superior sibling, while dark haired children are often portrayed as foolish, and not as attractive.
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	The Bluest Eye
		Dear Toni Morrison, After reading The Bluest Eye, I realized that your novel soared into new heights in illustrating the concept of masking and invisibility and its connection to racism.
		In the diverse society we live in, it is remarkable that although the United States is considered a melting pot, the standard of beauty in the book replicates the so-called Aryan race.
		This new dimension of masking and invisibility involving beauty is remarkable because it allows the reader to be more mature and conclude that fl beauty in the United States is not visible because it is hiding under this “white” ideal.
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	REACH: The Bluest Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Bluest Eye is the story of three African American girls, Pecola Breedlove and two sisters, Claudia and Frieda McTeer, whose lives are thrust together by circumstances that would be peculiar if not so common in the late 1940s.
		But the consequence of her mindset is far more significant than the Clark study; it was not a mere toy, but her identity and her very being that are at risk.
		The Bluest Eye is a must-read for all who wish to understand the complexities of racial identity formation for people of color, and it is particularly important in coming to terms with the spiritual and emotional crippling that often result from internalized oppression.
	www.uua.org /re/reach/fall00/adult/bluest_eye.html (873 words)

	Kenston High School ~ The Bluest Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Summary: "The Bluest Eye is about a young African American girl who associates being beautiful and happy with having blue eyes.
		The Bluest Eye is more than a coming of age story, its one of innocence to experience.
		This about a girl who's innocence was violently taken away from her and how it affected everyone around her.
	www.kenston.k12.oh.us /khs/strategicbooks/mc_colbert.htm (262 words)

	The Bluest Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The protagonist in The Bluest Eye is Pecola Breedlove.
		In The Bluest Eye, the entire book is one causal argument with all of the events resting on the initial idea that society influences the individual.
		With blue eyes she would be beautiful and popular, people would like her and treat her better.
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	Teaching the Bluest Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Bluest Eye is, simply, the story of two fl families: the McTeers, whose two daughters tell the story, and the Breedloves, whose daughter is the victim of it.
		For the structure of The Bluest Eye is made to expand so that the book can include much of the community as well as the McTeer and Breedlove families, the community of the past as well as the present.
		Rather, it foists itself on the eye of the passerby in a manner that is both irritating and melancholy.
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	Amazon.com: The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club): Books: Toni Morrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Bluest Eye tell the story of the Breedloves, a poor fl family living in Lorain, Ohio in the early 1940s.
		The Bluest Eye is highly moving and sensitive, and written in an addictive easy and lyrical style.
		The Bluest Eye, the story of a young girl's tortured life, is not a story you can "like".
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	TONI MORRISON / THE BLUEST EYE
		Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men and sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel.
		We stare at her, wanting her bread, but more than that wanting to poke the arrogance out of her eyes and smash the pride of ownership that curls her chewing mouth.
		When she comes out of the car we will beat her up, make red marks on her white skin, and she will cry and ask us do we want her to pull her pants down.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/morrison/excerpt.html (1010 words)

	Bluest Eye \| Toni Morrison \| African American novel \| Questia.com Online Library
		The Bluest Eye: Selfhood and Community 31...is central to Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye.
		In her first novel, The Bluest Eye, Morrison writes of the abuse...description of Pecola, at the end of The Bluest Eye...
		...note in passing the scene in The Bluest Eye in which Pecola is raped by her father...from a dualistic perspective in The Bluest Eye, where projections of African...
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	Barnes & Noble.com - Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison - Paperback - REPRINT
		First published in 1965, The Bluest Eye is the story of a fl girl who prays -- with unforeseen consequences--for her eyes to turn blue so she will be accepted.
		She just wants to be like the other girls that are blond with blue eyes so she can fit in.
		I enjoyed reading The Bluest Eyes as a 'poetic' book for times when there was nothing else to do but as far as it having an effect on me there wasn't a great impact.
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	WowEssays.com - The Bluest Eye
		With The Bluest Eye, Morrison has not only created a story, but also a series of painfully accurate impressions.
		A reader might easily conclude that the most prominent social issue presented in The Bluest Eye is that of racism, but more important issues lie beneath the surface.
		In The Bluest Eye, Morrison has created a powerful novel with a strong social impact.
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	Hunterdon Central Library: Bluest Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Using what you learn, create a character, providing specific background information, whose eyes will be the "lens" through which you will respond to the events in The Bluest Eye.
		You are going to begin by researching your assigned aspect of the 1940s and writing a one-page typed description with specific examples and events that will show others what life was like.
		Lastly, all journal responses to events in The Bluest Eye will be written through the eyes of the character you create.
	central.hcrhs.k12.nj.us /imc/bluest_eye_project (517 words)

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