The Bluest Eye

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Summary: A book to live by, a sad story to tell.
Review: This book clearly researchs the nesscesity to reach out and help others in need. It shows how strong ignorance really is and the importance for tolerance in todays society. It was directly related to the never changing ways of todays world and the importance of shining above all negativity.

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Summary: GOOD
Review: This book was really sad but really good this is the first book i really liked by Tonia Morisson this book is about a young girl named Pecola Breedlove who wants blues eyes because she is discriminated against from other people . she thinks if she has blue eyes her world will be all perfect this is a really good book just a warning though it will make u angry and it will also make u cry ......but it is really worth reading...

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Summary: An Indictment on Our Sense of Beauty
Review: It's still amazing how in African-American society we still cling to a beauty aesthetic of other cultures. This book is a startling example of a child abused not only by her parents, but her community. We, as an American society, should take heed of the message Toni Morrison conveys.

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Summary: WOW~Great Book
Review: I first came in to reading The Bluest eye, by Toni Morrison, almost dreading the experience. I thought, great, another book about prejudice in our wonderful world. But the way Morrison has portrated Pecola, Claudia, Frieda, and the rest of the "bunch" gives the reader incredible ammounts of insight as to what it was like to be in the minority in a time of struggle. As a young Jewish teenage female, I look at this book as a way for everyone to get a bit of insight on what it was like to be an elementary aged, black girl, growing up in a time of prejudice and hate.

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Summary: This book was bomb!!!!
Review: I read this book for a junior year term paper, and not only was it compassionate and addicting, it really made me understand the hardships that some African American families went through. It brought me to the level of racism, and seeing it from the other side. I really felt like I was walking in all the characters shoes.

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Summary: It connects the world with reality
Review: Toni Morrison made the characters in the book come alive. I can relate to this book because everyone deals with racism, it doesn't matter the age or color.

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Summary: A Valiant Attempt, Yet Possessing Several Flaws
Review: Morrison's The Bluest Eye is clearly concerned with focusing on the effects of racism on a young black girl, Pecola. The novel is well written material that varies in point of view, giving it spice, and can be characterized as "easy reading" -- although it is still deep in content. The book does have several flaws. First, being an "ignorant" white male, I personally had difficulty identifying with the situation of Pecola. Second, the theme of destructive white racism is counteracted by the situation of Pecola. The fact that Pecola's family is so disfunctional detracts from the validity of the theme, causing Pecola's life to be looked at as an isolated incident and also destroying the intended universality of the theme. Finally, on a personal note, the constant descriptions did get quite annoying at times. The Bluest Eye is for the reader who is eager to be depressed by pessimism. In the historical context of the period during which it was written, the novel is wonderful, but it hardly can be applied accurately to modern society.

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Summary: words cannot describe how this book will make you feel
Review: This book is one of the best books I have ever read and I recommend it to anyone. The only thing that will make this little girl happy is to have blue eyes. She thinks that by having blue eyes all the pain she has suffered in the book will be wiped away. Everyone will like her if she has beautiful blue eyes and it seems too cruel not to give her that wish. It is such a simple wish that is impossible to grant or is it? Having blue eyes myself, I can tell you that one physical feature doesn't make you loved anymore or less, but it's the fact that she thinks it shows just how innocent her thinking is. I don't want to give away any of the story, but it is one that will touch your heart and make you angry at one point, shocked at another and sad at the same time.

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Summary: Toni please just get to the point!
Review: This book and the rest of her work is far overrated. Toni takes the attention span of her readers for granted. She wastes far too much time setting up a scene or with description that the reader is no londer interested and becomes irritated. Speaking of dialogue which is few and far between in her works does nothing for character builidng of the protaganists. Dont read this book if you want to get anything out of it. Read it to be confused.

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Summary: Confusing but very powerfull
Review: This is one of the best books i have read. At frist i dint understand one word toini was trying to say but at the end all the pices came toghther and was very powerfull it canged my views in life and made me think about how manny people get raped by family members.