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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: This book was wonderful to read, and I am now reading the rest of Tony Morrison's books. Anyone who knows what it is like to NOT fit in, will love this, and understnad the message. Thanks Tony for writing my new favorite book!
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Summary: not morrison's best work
Review: I chose to read the book, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, because I had read her short story, Recitatif, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The Bluest Eye was well-written, creative, and thoughtful. However, I thought it was a bit hard to get into. There was so much stuff going on, so many different perspectives to take into account, that at times it got a bit confusing for me. Although I would recommend this book to others, I don't think it is her best work.
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Summary: An Essential Part of Anyone's Literary Collection
Review: "The Bluest Eye" is, as my title specifies, an essential book to have in your own library. This is the one book that has, I believe, taught me more about the power of language than any other contemporary text, fictional or nonfictional. Not only that, but the ways in which we sacrifice that power we hold as individuals to use our words and the actions they inspire to do good, for ourselves and others. An excellent commentary on the ways in which the worlds we create for ourselves often resemble the hell we imagine surrounds us.
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Summary: Toni Morrison is amazing!
Review: This is the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young African-American girl in a post-World War II America that adores Shirley Temple look-alikes. Pecola prays for blue eyes so she too can be beautiful. Pecola's own mother even seems to love the little blonde girl whose house she cleans more than she loves her own children. Toni Morrison's first novel poignantly captures the ugliness of adults and other children who make this little girl feel ugly. A great choice for reading groups. Lots to talk about.
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Summary: Brilliantly crafted novel that reads like poetry....
Review: This is quite possibly one of the most heartbreaking stories you will ever read. Imagine being a young black girl when the ideal is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Shirley Temple-type, and being told constantly (both directly and indirectly) that you are ugly. Imagine growing up as the scapegoat for everyone else to take their anger and frustration out on - the whole time dreaming of how you could someday have beautiful blue eyes. Imagine the madness you retreat into just to live in the world of your creation - where you have those beautiful blue eyes and nobody can hurt you any more. It's riveting and eloquent - you won't be able to put it down.
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Summary: Sophisticated first novel from Morrison
Review: I can see how Morrison feels that this effort is not entirely successful. Perhaps the only drawback I see to this novel is that there are a few too many shifts in perspective, and by the time we are ready to have the story end, we get introduced to new characters and have to read all about their history. But that is a small complaint. The rest of this first novel is vintage Morrison. Granted, her voice is still rather new in this book, and the elements don't quite gel as well as they will in future novels, but we get to see Morrison at the beginning of her writing that will eventually lead her down the path to the Nobel Prize in Literature. Of course, this is not always an easy read. In fact, this story is full of ugliness and horror that leaves the reader in need of a long, head clearing walk afterwards. However, many people label this story as being just too depressing, or a real downer. I don't see it that way. Perhaps this is because Morrison tends to distance us from the events at times by telling the story partly through the perspective of so many different narrators. I hardly think this story is too depressing to read. After all, just a few short years ago, Americans (and the world) were lining up to see a movie about a ship that sinks, killing over a thousand. This book is far more developed, and engrossig than that film. Don't listen to the naysayers, read this book, not only for the craftsmanship, but to read the first novel in what becomes for Morrison a brilliant career.
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Summary: The Bluest Eye
Review: It is the story of a young girl who wanted more then anything to have blue eyes. She yearns to have the feelings of the all-American blonde haired blue eyed white girl who has a priveledged life. Pecola is a poor, homely, black girl living with her parents in the south. She has alwyas been treated less tehn everyone else in society, even other black girls because she is ugly. This story is of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment. I loved this book. I recommend it for females over the age of 13. It will touch your heart and make you feel sympathy for the characters. You will get to know them so well, and you will feel their pain, suffering, and cherish the moments with them. You will want to help them perservere and triumph over the rough times. Please, take my word for it, this is a great book that everyone should experience.
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Summary: The Bluest Eye
Review: Author: Tonni Morrison Title : The Bluest Eye This book is about a 12 year old girl named Pecola Breedlove who was raped by her dad Charlie Breedlove. She feels like no one loves her so she prays for blue eyes so people will love her. I recommend this book for ages 14 and up. I like this book because it is exciting and keeps you wondering what will happen next. This is a very good book and I give it 2 thumbs up.
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Summary: A Magnificent Book!
Review: I have never read a book so poetic. When I saw "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, I wanted to read it to see what it was like. It was great a story and so much more. Pecola Breedlove- a little girl that goes through so much pain. I mean I thought that when I was little that I had it bad, but...she has it ten times as worse as some children. She views herself as ugly. She hardly has friends her age. Her mother acts as a matyr, her brother runs away, and her father is a drunk. Pecola envisions that having "blue eyes" will help with herself and her daily life. She thinks that by having these eyes her parents will stop fighting, and her whole environment will change. Claudia MacTeer-Claudia is the narrator of the story. She tells about the devasting things that will happen to Pecola Breedlove. .... .... .... .... .... .... "The Bluest Eye" has open my eyes. It has made me seen what environmental factors can tear one child into pieces and drive her into insanity. I remember my childhood, and it reminds me of my name. I did not like my name because I thought it was too weird. I wanted another name. A plain name. But as I grew older, I embraced my name because it was special reason why I was name that name. But Pecola's world...her world is torn apart. Raped and pregnant by her father. Rejected by society because she is ugly. These things make her want "blue eyes" so much...she even imagines that she has them when Soaphead Church grants them to her. America needs to wake up...what are we really doing to our children. Is it possible that this has happen before? Oh, yes, it has happen. I think that it is continuing to happen. Maybe not so drastically as it happened with Pecola, but enough to destroy a child's world. Thank you Toni Morrison---it is writers like you make people think about what is happening to our society :o).
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Summary: "Bluest Eye" Full of Tears
Review: Toni Morrison's breakout novel is very straightforward regarding the horrors of racism and its results. "The Bluest Eye" is an informative, eye-opening novel along the lines of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," portraying a similar state of jaw-dropping depravity and psychological warping on the part of the victims of racial discrimination, even though the plots and characters of the two novels are drastically different. However, though Morrison's novel is not nearly as long as "Invisible Man," and she deals more with the female black community rather than the male, both novels achieve a deep sense of gloom, majorly due to the heavy subject matter dealt with. In "Bluest Eye," Pecola Breedlove is beaten, homeless, teased, ugly, and raped not once, but twice by her own alcoholic father. Her obsession with trying to earn blue eyes-- so that she can have the love that is lavished on blond, blue-eyed girls-- drags her down into the depths of insanity. Certainly a well-written, knowledgable, and absorbing book, but it is not for someone looking for a light read. This novel should definitely be read, but beware the side-effect of melancholy and depression that is sure to ensue.
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