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Summary: The Bluest Eye
Review: In the novel The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the text evades many themes that develop throughout the book. The novel does a good job of developing the themes, such as hope, racism and coming of age. Pecola Breedlove, an 11yr. old girl, grew up in a neighborhood where racism was much more vigilant that current day racism. Pecola encountered many grotesque experiences throughout her life. Pecola would pray and hope for blue eyes everyday of her life. The text dragged at various times in the book but still kept my attention by the use of depression description of the book. Personally, I thought that the novel compared to the novel Avalon. Both books similarly give specifics on the theme of hope. Pecola hopes to gain the acceptance of her society and the book Avalon describes the hardships of struggling family trying to find the perfect place to stay in their new home, America.
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Summary: Continuous hope for blue eyes
Review: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is a novel that was written in 1965-69.The scene is set in Lorain, Ohio, in the early 1940's. Pecola Breedlove is an 11 year old black girl whose deepest love is for blue eye's. Growing up her whole childhood life Pecola was known as an ugly child.Children on the playground would make fun of her, calling her names and pointing finger's at her.Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful, people would look at her in a different , and her whole world would be better.Pecloa's hope, love, and inner beauty gives her hope that one day God would bless her with blue eyes. Personally this novel was not my type of reading.It put me to sleep in a matter of minutes. I recomend this book to anyone who believes in equality for everyone.
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Summary: Her greatest
Review: This was the first novel I read by Ms. Morrison and it just walloped me. I thought the dialogue between the two sisters was touching, wry, and as true to the way close siblings talk to each other as anything I've ever read. In this book, it is the humanity of the children that emerges, and that is the beautiful part of it. Of course, evil wins in the end, but we know it - it's so blatant - that we come to hate evil, and that is the true value of the book. I am in awe of writers who can portray evil in such a vivid manner. Stephen King did it in "The Stand" with the "Walkin' Dude" and the clown in "It" and Dostoevsky with Stavrogin in "The Possessed." It's a rare and exciting thing to find, and I applaud this poetic, highly skilled writer. "Beloved" and "Sula" were my other favorites by Ms. Morrison. "Beloved" was certainly the most seering depiction of slavery I have ever come across in the writing I've read. A real consciousness-raiser for me - "plantation life" without a drop of that gussied-up "some-slaves-were-happy" routine. I really appreciated that. She's a great storyteller, no matter how you slice it. Can't wait for her next book.
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Summary: a psycological thriller!!
Review: The book is called "The Perfume" by Patrick Süskind. it's about a man in France in the 18th century. He is born without a bodysmell and with the best smellingsence in the world. After a childhood with problems he becoms a man who makes perfums. And his project becoms to extract the smell of human beings from young girls.
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Summary: The most haunting portrayal of madness since "The Bell Jar"
Review: I couldn't put this book down from the moment I opened it. I doubt any reader could not want to reach into this book and remove Pecold Breedlove from her family's abuse and insanity before it ultimately engulfs her. Doomed from the start, Pecola becomes the innocent victim of everyone around her. Toni Morrison has captured the evils of racism, incest, and abuse, and shown their very tragic results through Pecola in a very haunting, yet unfortunately all too real, manner. Without a doubt, one of the most emotional stories I have ever read.
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Summary: The book will haunt you!
Review: Morrison's heart wrenching novel tells the story of an entire town from a child's perspective. Morrison mixes elements of racism, poverty, and human fragility into a vivid tragedy. The child's voice becomes the consience that the society appears to lack. Morrison resists simplifying the characters or creating villains and heroes. We think this book should be taught to more mature students in high school.
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Summary: Unbearable
Review: I'm no fan of Toni Morrison, but this, her first novel, broke my heart. More like ripped it out, stomped on it and mangled it. This book contains within it the germ of ultimate despair and sadness; a tale that goes beyond any kind of sorrow I've felt before. I don't know what else to say, except that I selfishly wish Pecola Breedlove and people who have felt her pain had never existed, so that I wouldn't have to think that anguish like theirs had ever been felt by any person. All I could do after reading this book was cry for the whole damn human race. Ignore every other book Morrison has written and read this one. You won't enjoy it, but you will be a wiser human being because of it.
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Summary: Haunting and painful, yet all too true.
Review: I had never read Morrison until I accepted a challenge to read more books by women and by minority or third-world authors. This was just one of the books I agreed to read -- and I'm very pleased that I did. The tragic existence (can one really call it a "life"?) of Pecola Breedlove is a disturbing slice of reality. Morrison has shown even me, a white American male, the horror of growing up a poor black girl among a people who could not recognize her precious value. Convinced that the bitter, ugly world would be changed if could see and be seen with blue eyes, Pecola's tragedy is felt by the reader, who can see the emptiness of her hopeless wishes. Since reading "The Bluest Eye," I have read other books by Morrison and had similar moving experiences. As I mentioned -- it took the challenge of a friend to introduce me to this book -- thanks, Kristine!
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Summary: A Child's Eye View of Racism
Review: Little Claudia's eyes are the best Morrison could have chosen to narrate this story. Here we meet a child who is so tired of seeing blond haired blue eyed white children in the spotlight that she gleefully dismembers her white baby dolls and dreams of doing the same thing to the white children she meets. Claudia befriends Pecola who's dream is to be blue eyed for then this girl, tormented for her ugliness, will be beautiful. Pecola has problems of her own. ...Her biggest problem arrises when a new age spiritualist tells her that her wish has been granted and Pecola chooses to believe it, totally disconnecting herself from reality. The only faults in this tale arise in Morrison's changing characters so often that it sometimes becomes confusing as to whose head we are inside.
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Summary: An exellent story, yet tough for teen readers
Review: I listened to the audio version of this book. It was very interseting while at the same time a bit difficult to comprehend. It was the first of Morrison's books I ever read and I already like her! I recommend it to all!
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