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Summary: The Bluest Eye- January 13, 2004
Review: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison was an interesting and creative novel. The book is based in Lorain, Ohio which was Morrison's home town. The books focal point is about a little black girl named Pecola who believes that the only way she can be pretty is to have the blondest of hair and the bluest of eyes. She also believes that all of her problems would be solved if she accomplishes this. She is abused mentally by the society that she is in and even physically by her father who rapes and impregnates her.It is not just Pecola in the book that falls subject to the feeling inferior and abuse, but most of the black community in her town as well. Claudia is another protagonist in the book that witnesses all that happens to Pecola. Claudia lives with her sister Frieda and her mother in a house that is poverty stricken. Claudia narrates the book as an adult looking back at the past when she was nine years old. The main enemy of the book is not a tangible object or person, but is more of a way of thinking back in the time. Internalized racism is this way of thinking. The black community is targeted by this idea and begins to believe their own inferiority to whites. Pecola being the main character suffers the most from internalized racism. This was the first book that Toni Morrison ever wrote and the reader can tell by her styles of writing. It almost seems as though she is testing writing styles and speech. From reading the book I can tell that Toni Morrison was experimenting with fiction because the content form is sometimes fleeing from the main idea. Pecola's experiences throughout the book leave her insensible, a product of her own ideas of herself based on racism in the town. This book was poignant with a depressing tone and at the same time very interesting and informative. Morrison's writing is creative. This book requires interest in a different kind of writing and an open mind. I enjoyed the book, but would not be interested in reading another one written by Toni Morrison.
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Summary: the bluest eye by quinn bottomly
Review: The book, the bluest eye by Toni Morrison, was a well written book, told thought the eyes of a young black girl. Morrison tells the story of the black struggle thought a young girl coming of age, which strays from the usual perspective of the black supretion story.
The young girl, Pecola, lives in a broken home with here Mother, Father, and older brother Sam. Her mother is a maid to a rich white family. He mother is so corrupted by society she is in love with the white person's way of life. Every day the is told through different mediums, to live a beautiful life of love and happiness it must resemble that of a upper middle class with family. This way of thinking causes here to abounded her role as a mother and devote her love to the white family of which she serves.
The father of the house, named Cholly, is a drunk who ends up destroying the mind of his young daughter, Pecola. He takes no responsibility as a father because of is constant abuse of alcohol. In the end his lust and greed lead him to violently raping his daughter. Word got out about his repulsive acts and he was "put out doors" and banished form the community.
The main character of the story is the little girl named Pecola. Through the story this young girl is seeking beauty. Here dream is to be beautiful, like Sheryl Templeton or other blond haired, blued eyed little girl. She thinks that is she just had blue eyes she and the people around her would be happy. In the end Pecola gains her blue eyes, however the affects of the eyes where not what she had hoped for.
This book deals with many issues surrounding racial discrimination. The main theme Toni Morrison was focusing on through out the book was how, because of the years and years of the white society beating in the idea of racial inferiority into the minds of African Americans. Soon the black race was starting to believe the inferiority of there own people to the white man. Toni Morrison has captured this idea very well, splendid work.
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Summary: Great Commentary on Color Politics
Review: This book offers extraordinary insight into the color-complex dilemma that has plagued the African American community since the beginning of slavery. Any black girl who has ever been ridiculed simply for being darker should relate to the protagonist Pecola's unfortunate predicament. Morrison sufficiently tackles the issue of intra-racial prejudice throughout this masterpiece and does it with literary grace and prowess. Thank you so much for this divine work of fiction Toni! Thank you!
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Summary: Beauty in the eye of "people in power"
Review: What is beauty? How do we define it and by whose standards? Toni Morrison made me really think about these two questions in The Bluest Eye.
Story of a little black girl who prayed for blue eyes. I like the way the book is written and pieced together. All the characters that surround Pecola, are described vividly and give an insight of why certain things happen to her.
Pecola wanted blue eyes because all the little white dolls and girls were "beautiful", at least thats what everyone said, people that were important to Pecola. Great book, interesting characters, its impossible to feel hatred towared the wrong doers because of their past.
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Summary: Ms. Morrison
Review: Truly a superb book. The depth of which is astonding. I could feel the pain and heartache throughout. A page turner you can not put down.
On the same caliper I recommend: Nightmares Echo,Color Purple and Secret Life Of Bees
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Summary: Written Child Porn
Review: It has been a while since I read this book, but I recently was involved in a discussion about this Toni Morrison novel, so I've decided to write a review: The book has some brilliant moments, no doubt. But all and all this novel reads like a fifth-grader wrote it, and contains an extremely graphic rape scene between a man and a little girl. This novel, just like The Catcher In The Rye, is nothing but an attempt to write a story for people who love to see negativity and pessimism glorified. A play for that "woe-is-me" crowd of "LEFTIST" morons. An easy target to shoot for. If you want to become a famous novelist, just use the Lord's name in vain, over and over again, or describe how you hate the world because it has let you down. Like I said, there are a few parts of this novel I think are great. But there is so much more of it that is just disgusting, whining, and needless complaining. Toni Morrison is the most overrated writer in America today... www.therunnninggirl.com
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Summary: In every city
Review: In an amazingly academic afterward, Toni Morrison discusses the writing in THE BLUEST EYE and analyzes her goals, where she achieved them and where she did not. If I understand her correctly, she wanted the reader to participate in Pecola's process of self-discovery (or lack of) and learn that every witness is responsible for destroying the life and oppressing the feelings of this child. She claims to have not acheived this, that "readers were touched, but not moved." I'm not sure of the real difference in being one or the other but I suspect she meant that the readers were "not moved" to change. Toni Morrison asks a great deal of herself if she feels she was unsuccessful with THE BLUEST EYE. I was astounded by its poetry, its revelations, its pain and its deep wisdom. If ever a book was wise, this is the one.
In terms of structure, this book is a masterpiece. Told from the point of view of two young black sisters (who are poor but better off than Percola) this book narrates the story of Pecola, her mother and father, and the Ohio community in which she lives in the 1940s. Each characterization is so thorough you can almost reach out and touch them; the chatter is so euphonious you can hear it and, despite the weight of this tale, take delight in each personality. Without a bump, we get the stories of her mother, her father, and the upstairs prostitutes, as well as of several other people who help destroy Pecola. Finally, there's Soaphead Church a self-made community wizard to whom Pecola makes her demand for blue eyes. Soaphead sees what this is about and writes a letter to God the style and intent of which has to be the first of its kind in all of contemporary literature.
And Pecola herself? In insanity, she finds solace. We've seen her everywhere, everyday and never notice or chose to ignore her. She's on streets and in parks of every city, lost in her own world, forgotten by others and outside the margin of any community we can recognize. It is, in so many ways, one of the saddest stories ever told. In insanity, Pecola finds the only comfort she can. I'm aware that this sounds exactly like the pity that Toni Morrison would want to avoid. In conjunction with this pity, is awareness.
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Summary: In a Word, "Wow!"
Review: I was required to read this for my high school English class. I'm not a big fan of reading novels that are required because I the majority of them to be quite boring. This novel was not. Pecola Breedlove is just a young girl growing up in Lorrain, Ohio. Her family lives in the first floor of a building that used to be a store front. There, she is raped by her father and becomes pregnant. The baby is born premature and dies. "The Bluest Eye" comes from Pecola's wish that she were a white child, the have bright, beautiful, blue eyes. The white children where her mother works live in paradise compared to Pecola. I found this novel to be quite captivating. I was unable to put it down. However, it is not a book for the faint of heart and the ending isn't "...and they all lived happily ever after."
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Summary: a 3 star writer
Review: is the best way to describe Toni Morrison. She's not a bad writer, but not really good either. On a scale of 1-100 I'd rate her about a 65-75 depending on the novel. I'd give this one about a 70. Perhaps this is because I've never been able to finish one of her books. I've tried and tried but I just can't do it. She has some lovely poetic phrasings and nice descriptions, but a Nobel winner? Pulleeze! The best way I can think to describe her style of writing and her characters- it's like watching beautiful descriptions of people from a distance, like through glass that is slightly opaque- because I've never gotten a sense of anyone from her books. Never have they wanted to walk off the page for me. I tried reading her latest, "Love" & only got to page 15. I'm surprised I did not drown sooner in the description. That is why I didn't even bother reviewing it- it wouldn't have been fair. Maybe someday I'll be able to read one of her books from cover to cover, but for now she's just a black Danielle Steel with a more poetic bend.
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Summary: MOST REPULSIVE BOOK EVER
Review: I had to read this book for 9th grade english. It was so terrible. Half the time someone is having sex or being rapped. I never saw any of the good things about this book, and when I told my english teacher about the book(she has never read it) she told me to write a letter to the school board to have them remove it from the list. So thats what I am doing. I cant believe how much sex was in this book. Dont give this book to people under 16! Its sooooooo dirty!
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