The Bluest Eye

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Summary: The Bluest Eye
Review: I read the book The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, it was very sad, but it can help people realize how much physical appearance can mean to someone. This book relates to reality in many ways, such as problems within a family, and how some people don't like how they look. I think that this book can change how someone treats another because of their appearance. Also, I think that Toni Morrison is trying to tell her audience that instead of judging someone you should help them no matter what the circumstances may be, because you could end up changing their life. Even though the book took place in the 40's, it talks about a lot of problems that we still see happening today.

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Summary: give it a try..you might like it:)
Review: I don't think Toni Morrison could ever dissapoint her readers... Her writing style is so beautiful and poetic and although this might not be her best work (it is her first, after all) it is definetly a touching story that's worth reading. This novel will make you think about the notion of beauty: isn't society really the judge of what is beautiful & doesn't that notion change as society changes? The protagonist, a young black girl bereft of love from basically everyone, Pecola, wants more than anything in the world to have blue eyes, because she believes that blue eyes would make anyone beautiful. Her fate is a sad one & when she finally gets some "love" from a member of her family it leads to tragic consequences. The story is mainly told from the point of view of a child of around Pecola's age & I thought this was beneficial to the story because often very disturbing things are discussed with the innocence/naivete of a child. Then again, at other times the author does not go easy on the imagery when discussing very disturbing things. This book is not for everyone, but the prose is beautiful (as always in Ms. Morrison's works) and the story will teach the reader a thing or two about one of its main themes: the notion of beauty.

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Summary: Fantastic - a work of art!
Review: I originally picked up this book by fluke. I was searching for a fiction novel to use for an English essay and decided to venture outside the suggested reading list - comprised of mostly 19th-20th century British litracists. Wow. Never before have a read such a masterfully created book! And to think this was her first. So well written - it conveys a message to all people of what beauty will do to us and the realities of these despicable societal norms. Well done - and worth the read - I finished it in a few sittings!

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Summary: Easily one of the best books I've ever read!!
Review: Ms. Morrison is pure genius! She can capture the spirit of a human being like few others. I am always in awe of what she writes. I loved "Song of Solomon" and "Love" also, but "The Bluest Eye" will always hold a very special place inside me.

Cindy Boyd
author of Letting the Dog Out
www.lettingthedogout.com

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Summary: What I Think
Review: The book The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is such a depressing and sad book that makes it very good and interesting. I recommend this book because it can make a person realize how physical appearance can mean so much to one person. This book relates to reality in different ways, such as incidents of being raped by a family member does happen, and some people aren't satisfied with their looks. It can change how a person behaves and treats another because of their appearance and race. This book can help you understand how a person that is being convinced that he/she is ugly feels. It's sad because there are people in this world that long so much to become pretty, but I believe that each person is beautiful in their own way.
I liked this book because it relates to situations that actually happen in the outside world. Toni Morrison has described the hardships and problems Pecola faced just because she's black and physically unattractive. People in this world do get treated unequal and different just because of their race and how they look like. It is less likely that people who have better features are being teased and made fun of.
I have a friend who always thought she was ugly because she thinks she's fat. She'll be down and upset about how sometimes guys treat her different from other girls and sometimes they would call her mean names. But she has a super-great personality and that just makes up for everything.
Another reason I liked this book is because Toni Morrison seem to describe Pecola as a strong person. Even after that horrible incident she went through, she still kept herself alive and lived on. This part of this character made me realize it's not easy to live with something like this and always being teased. Being laughed at and unaccepted is hard and painful. Also, this character teaches me to not give up so easily when difficult situations occur.
Overall, I think The Bluest Eye is an outstanding novel that I highly recommend. It's not too long and it easy to understand. Not only this book have a sad and tragic story that makes it good, it can teach a person something valuable.


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Summary: The best book I've read in the last two years!
Review: The Bluest Eye is clearly the most poignant, the most insightfully written novel I've read in a long, long time. Everything came together in it but I'm not sure why or how. Its transitions are choppy, its characters are caricatures and its action is stifling, but it works and says what it needs to say despite its flaws.

I'm reminded of Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" where everything worked, despite an appalling lack of personal pronouns, or Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", which worked despite impossibly stilted language, or Orwell's "1984", which worked despite its nihilistic stereotypes.


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Summary: Simply Deep
Review: I would DEFINITELY recommend The Bluest Eye to my peers. While reading this book I felt that Toni Morrison was trying to get her audience to realize that "Love" is the answer, and also instead of judging someone help your brother or sister in need no matter what the circumstance is.Because you never know how you could change their life. Eventhough the book takes place in the 40's it identifies with some of the issues the main character(Pecola) was going through and it is really hard to believe that roughly 63 years later our world is still like that. To really get the message across Morrison uses "Love is never any better than the lover" as a way to end the book and to me that is what makes Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye "Simply Deep".

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Summary: The Bluest Eye
Review: For my AP English class I read "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison. I really liked this book. The style of writing by Morrison was different than most books that I have read in the past. She used a language that made the reader feel sorry for all the characters in the book. The book, however, was a mixture of angst, sadness, and truth. The characters that Morrison included were so innocent and unknowing of the world. When they finally experience it they are overcome with shock. The story is based around eleven year old Pecola Breedlove who is placed in the home of Claudia and Frieda MacTeer. All Pecola wants is blue eyes so that everyone will think she is beautiful instead of ugly. The MacTeer's befriend Pecola and become her only friends because her own family hates her. When her father rapes Pecola, the two girls find out that Pecola is pregnant and have no clue as to what to think. They finally decide that they want the baby to be ok so that they are able to validate their own blackness. Because of some very graphic scenes and language I would recommend this novel to high school age people up to elders. "The Bluest Eye" can really make someone realize how different each and every person really is.

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Summary: The Bluest Eye
Review: This book is about a girl named, Pecola. She lives with her father and mother, and her younger brother, Sammy. Her father is a drunk. He abuses her mother every night he comes home drunk. And her little brother, Sammy, runs away a lot. In the year of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom, Pecola's life does change, in a painful and devastating way. Pecola wishes that she had blue eyes like the white girls. She thinks that if she had blue eyes, that people would look at her differently, in a good way. And she thinks that she would look at things in a better way. But in the mean time, she still sees herself as being ugly. By the way the grocer looks at her, and how the young black boys make fun of her. And also how the light skinned girl befriends her, but yet still makes fun of her. In my opinion, this story is depressing. So i wouldnt recommend this book to a person that doesnt like being depressed. I personally liked the book because I like books that have racial conflicts in them. And this story mainly deals with racial conflicts.