The Bluest Eye
"The Bluest Eye” tells, on the point of view of another girl, Claudia, the ordeal that 11 year old Pecola had to endure because she was ugly. Many people: looked down on Pecola; treated her differently; had distaste for her blackness. And so --
"Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her."
-- these, I lifted from the synopsis at back cover of the book.
"The Bluest Eye” is a beautifully written devastating novel by Toni Morrison, 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature winner; last American to achieve that feat.
"Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her."
-- these, I lifted from the synopsis at back cover of the book.
"The Bluest Eye” is a beautifully written devastating novel by Toni Morrison, 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature winner; last American to achieve that feat.
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