The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison (PDF/READ) The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison New York Times BestsellerPecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.

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Send-to-Kindle or Email. Please login to your account first. The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humani-ties, Emeritus at Princeton University. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. First novel The Bluest Eye is a moving po rtrayal of a black Woman‟s que st for idea l self. The novel is based on Morrison‟s conversation with a black girl during her chil dhood. The Bluest Eye, a novel by Toni Morrison, unveils the tragedy of beauty in society. Living in Lorain, Ohio in 1939, an 11 year old African American girl Pecola Breedlove yearns. For the ‘bluest eye’, which she associates with a better life where adults wouldn’t look at her with. A detached look and children wouldn’t mock.

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Free download or read online The Bluest Eye pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in June 1st 1970, and was written by Toni Morrison. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 216 pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are Pauline Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove. The book has been awarded with National Book Critics Circle Award, and many others.

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Summary

Outside a Greek hotel, Rosemary Villanucci, a white neighborof the MacTeer family, taunts Claudia and Frieda MacTeer from the Villanucci’sBuick. School has started, and the sisters are expected to helpgather coal that has fallen out of the railroad cars. Their house isspacious but old, drafty, and infested with rodents. During one tripto gather coal, Claudia catches a cold. Her mother is angry but takesgood care of Claudia, who does not understand that her mother ismad at the sickness, not her. Frieda comforts Claudia by singingto her—or at least Claudia remembers it this way. In hindsight,she also remembers the constant, implicit presence of love.

The MacTeers are getting a new boarder, HenryWashington. The children overhear their mother explaining that hewas living with the elderly Della Jones but that she has grown toosenile for him to stay there. Mrs. MacTeer also explains that MissJones’s husband ran off with another woman because he thought hiswife smelled too clean. Henry has never married and has the reputationof being a steady worker. Mrs. MacTeer says the extra money willhelp her. When Henry arrives, the children adore him because heteases them and then does a magic trick: he offers them a pennybut then makes it disappear so that the girls must find it hiddenon his person.

There is also a second addition to the MacTeer household,Pecola Breedlove. She is temporarily in county custody because herfather burned down the family’s house. Pecola is the object of pitybecause her father has put the family “outdoors,” one of the greatestsins by community standards. Having joined the MacTeers, Pecolaloves drinking milk out of their Shirley Temple cup. Claudia explainsthat she has always hated Shirley Temple and also the blonde, blue-eyed babydoll that she was given for Christmas. She is confused about whyeveryone else thinks such dolls are lovable, and she pulls apart herdoll trying to discover where its “beauty” is located. Taking apartthe doll to the core, she discovers only a “mere metal roundness.”The adults are outraged, but Claudia points out that they neverasked her what she wanted for Christmas. She explains that her hatredof dolls turned into a hatred of little white girls and then intoa false love of whiteness and cleanliness.

It is a Saturday afternoon, and Mrs. MacTeer is angrybecause Pecola has drunk three quarts of milk. The girls are avoidingMrs. MacTeer and sitting bored on the steps when Pecola begins bleeding frombetween her legs. Frieda understands that Pecola is menstruating(though she calls it “ministratin’”) and attempts to attach a pad toPecola’s dress. Meanwhile, Rosemary, who has been watching fromthe bushes, yells to Mrs. MacTeer that the girls are “playing nasty.”Mrs. MacTeer starts to whip Frieda, but then sees the pad, and thegirls explain what has happened. Mrs. MacTeer is sorry and cleansup Pecola. That night in bed, Pecola asks Frieda how babies aremade. Frieda says you have to get someone to love you. Pecola asks,“How do you get someone to love you?”

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Analysis

This chapter introduces the various forms of powerlessnessthat Claudia faces and the challenges that she will encounter asshe grows up. First of all, she experiences the universal powerlessnessof being a child. Raised in an era when children are to be seen,not heard, she and her sister view adults as unpredictable forcesthat must be watched and handled carefully. Next, Claudia experiences thepowerlessness of being black and poor in the 1940s.She and her family cling to the margins of society, with the dangerousthreat of homelessness looming. Finally, Claudia experiences thepowerlessness of being female in a world in which the position ofwomen is precarious. Indeed, being a child, being black, and beinga girl are conditions of powerlessness that reinforce one anotherso much that for Claudia they become impossible to separate.

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Though Claudia is careful to point out that fear of povertyand homelessness was a more prevalent day-to-day worry in her communitythan fear of discrimination, racism does affect her life in subtleyet profound ways, especially in the sense that it distorts her beautystandards. Morrison most notably uses the cultural icon of ShirleyTemple (a hugely popular child actress of the day) and the popularchildren’s dolls of the 1940s to illustratemass culture’s influence on young black girls. When Claudia statesthat, unlike Frieda, she has not reached the point in her psychological“development” when her hatred of Shirley Temple and dolls will turnto love, the irony of the statement is clear. Claudia naïvely assumesthat the beauty others see in the doll must inhere physically inside it,and so she takes apart the doll to search for its beauty. She hasnot yet learned that beauty is a matter of cultural norms and thatthe doll is beautiful not in and of itself but rather because theculture she lives in believes whiteness is superior.