She does not escape the fact that she is still jealous of what others have, she requires regular reassurance, Claudia understand that Pecola was someone the community used to exorcise their own self-hatred by hating Pecola. Pecola imagines a friend for herself, which is isolating her from the real world rather than reconnecting her to it. Since she has gotten “blue eyes” she no longer recognize the outside world, and she is more invisible to others now than she was before. Pecola’s eyes are ironic to me, she wanted the bluest eyes so that people would tell her how beautiful she is and she wanted a connection with the people around her. She now strolls down the street jerking her arms like she’s trying to fly and Claudia and Frieda feels like they have failed …show more content… Breedlove doesn’t see her new friend. After Pecola and her friend stops talking the novel goes back to Claudia narrating the story and describing Pecola’s madness. The friend than replies to Pecola “like he made you” and Pecola gets mad saying stop talking about it because she doesn’t like to talk about dirty things. Breedlove misses him because they had sex a lot and Pecola tells the friend her mother doesn’t miss him, he made her do those things. Than the friend starts to talk about Cholly, insinuating Mrs. Pecola asks her imaginary friend why weren’t they friends before her new eyes and the friend replies that Pecola didn’t need her before. Pecola tells her new friend now that she has blue eyes everyone is jealous of them and won’t even look at her, not even Mrs. This story takes place in the 1970’s, a time where African Americans were second class. Pecola believes that the only way she will ever be beautiful is if she has blue eyes. Beauty is something that a lot of people in life strive for, because everyone has fitted in. The imaginary friend is attacking Pecola for looking in the mirror too long saying she is obsessed with her new eyes. Racism In The Bluest Eyes The Bluest Eye tells a tragic story of a young girl named Pecola who desperately wishes for beautiful blue eyes. An essay or paper on The Bluest Eye and The Ideal of Beauty. Pecola takes this hurtful treatment to be a direct result of the fact that she lacks blue eyes and is ugly.Show More In the summer section of the novel “The Bluest Eyes” by Toni Morrison we are introduced to Pecola’s imaginary friend. The perception of Pecola as not-innocent opens the door for Yacobowski to be a wielder of hurt. He doesn’t see Pecola due to a set of beliefs that justify the exploitation of black children and in this instance Pecola, a little girl simply wanting to buy candy is deemed not worthy of respect and kindness. Yacobowski subscribing to a similar ideology where innocence is raced in the way that he is an implementer of pain for Pecola. Bernstein claims, “ White children became constructed as tender angels while black children were libeled as unfeeling, noninnocent nonchildren” (33). This scene can be interpreted through the argument Bernstein makes in Racial Innocence Performing Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights, which is that innocence becomes a tool for dividing children into valued and not valued with race playing a large role in the deciding factor. Consequently, when innocence is attributed to whiteness it dangerously allows for perceptions constructed by society to dictate one’s worth. As she is walking to the store she notices the dandelions on the path and …show more content… Bernstein and Morrison expertly shed light on the way children visually consume the culture around them. This essay discovers the child’s view of the problems of racism, poverty, incest, and the. The Main Characters and Themes of The Bluest Eye. Towards the first third of the novel, Pecola goes to buy penny candy from Yacobowski’s Fresh Veg. Tony Morrison is the author of the novel titled The Bluest Eye, which presents an overview of an African-American girl’s life and the challenges she encountered. Claudia and Frieda act as witnesses to Pecola’s disintegration and as a result, they will spend the rest of their lives grappling with what happened to Pecola. Through the eyes of our narrator, Claudia, and her sister Frieda we see the pervasive racism and abuse Pecola is subjected to. Pecola becomes convinced that if she had blue eyes her life would be different. The story focuses on the character of Pecola Breedlove who wants to have blue eyes. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) takes place in Ohio towards the tail end of the depression.
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