Reading Response On The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye revolves around self-hatred, to the feeling of rejection towards oneself to reach an impossible and absurd ideal, leading to destruction and madness. In this case, Toni Morrison addresses the feeling of self-loathing on racial grounds racism and describes how the hatred of others ends up becoming self-deprecation. In this book, whiteness represents beauty. This is a standard that black girls can not meet, especially Pecola, who has darker skin than the rest. Pecola connects beauty with being loved and believes that if she had blue eyes all the bad things in her life would be replaced by love and affection. This desperate desire leads her to madness at the end of the novel.
Morrison sees love as a dynamic force, which can be extremely damaging depending on who is making love. The biggest example of this is the relationship that Cholly has with her daughter Pecola. Cholly is the only character in the entire book who can see past Pecca's seemingly disgusting shell enough to touch it. While this sounds like something beautiful, it is actually the violent rape that serves as the climax of the story. As Claudia points out in the final chapter of this novel, 'Love is never better than the lover. Evil people love evil, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly 'While Cholly definitely loves, the core of his personality forces him to manifest this love in a violent way. It can be seen as a very pessimistic view, stating that true love can only be achieved if the lover is a good and honest person, this can also be seen as uplifting. Despite that love can be distorted, Morrison points out that everyone can, in fact, love. Even if an evil person loves in an evil way, he can still love.
Love
This novel does a good job by describing the life of black women and it is even better that is written by a black woman, Morrison has described the gender disparity throughout the world. Or his characters such as Pecola, Frieda, Pauline, and the narrator Claudia, who once mentioned in the novel that three things have affected her life a lot: being a girl, being black and being a girl. Morrison continually places the idea and image of dirt and impurity, both figuratively and literally, in each new environment. At first, it presents a sick Claudia plagued with bronchial symptoms and flu, locked in an 'old, cold and green' house. The appearance and home of the Breedloves is poor and ugly. Pecola befriends the prostitutes who live above her, who are impure in their own nature. They sleep around, they refute religion, they are full of makeup, they are surrounded by smoke and they are overweight. In total, the characters live in a dusty and hot city, separated from the upper-class whites. They themselves are dark and not pristine in appearance. Pecola is especially insecure about her differences and imperfections. Morrison uses this repetitive concept to emphasize the severity of his lifestyles and his desperation to keep up appearances.
Sacrifice
Most of Morrison's characters are martyrs of some cause or of some person. Claudia and Frieda's mother abandoned youth and her own life to stay at home and take care of a family. Pecola thinks it's ugly for other people to be beautiful. His body is sacrificed to Cholly for his personal accomplishment. Claudia and Frieda gave their bike money and flower seeds to 'make magic' for Pecola and her baby. Mrs. Breedlove renounced her family, the wealth and status of Cholly and the problems she brings economically, physically and emotionally. Even the Maginot Line and China abandoned their bodies and their social position to have a roof over their heads and food. The constant discussion of the book on sacrifice, sin, and unreachable redemption emphasizes a broader idea of the true purpose of life and the struggle to overcome something that offers no reward.
Believing that a new pair of eyes will change the way you see things, as well as the way you see it, Pecola's great desire is to have the bluest eyes in the world. The innocent desire of the young woman is marked by her perception of a world where the cruelty and hardships she suffers are the results of her appearance as a black and ugly girl with dark eyes. He imagines that having blue eyes will earn his respect and possible admiration. This is demonstrated when Pecola is disturbed by the small children in the playground when Maureen comes to look at them with her clear eyes, the children recoil and behave in a more respectable way. In addition, Pecola specifically wants new eyes instead of clearer skin because he also expects to see the world literally in a better way. At home and around her, Pecola is tortured by the cruelty and filth she constantly witnesses; If she were blessed with new eyes, she would be able to see herself and her world in a new and beautiful way. Pecola's desire for blue. The structure of the novel is very complex and I find it difficult to read because it has puns, how to remove spaces or at the beginning repeat three times the initial paragraph, first removing the capital letters and the scoring and then removing capital letters, punctuation and spaces between words.ll this to represent the madness in which Pecola is. The Bluest Eye is a hard, sad, and at times nauseating narrative. The characters live in backwardness, in “machismo”, and in the most absolute marginality, clear criticism about inequalities and lack of opportunities.
