this is the assignment :

“The Bluest Eye”

For this post, I would like you to put ideas, themes, and issues from Morison’s novel in a productive dialogue with works, concepts, and writers from earlier in the semester.

While the topics you explore are wide open, I am looking for you to make a productive comparison between the texts.

Possible approaches:

• A comparison of representations across multiple works (e.g., How is physical beauty represented differently in Morrison and Larson? Is it treated more like a blessing or a curse? Are the novels making the similar arguments or do their themes stand in contrast to one another?)
• A comparison between characters in different works (e.g., How does Cholly Breedlove compare to the the male characters in Huston’s stories? Are both authors similarly skeptical of patriarchal authority?
• A comparison between the style/structure of different works (e.g., How does Fitzgerald’s use of multiple perspectives compare with what how Morrison tells the story of Pecola?)
• A look at a text in terms of how it draws from or compares to earlier aesthetic movements (e.g., does The Bluest Eye seem to refute or endorse naturalism’s instance on environmental determinism?

Of course, these are just examples and I encourage you to come up with comparative approaches that you find compelling.

Here is my response:“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison focuses on the difficult life of Pecola. Notably, Pecola is a black girl whose family experiences different types of difficulties. Being Black, Pecola has a very low self-esteem and believes that only whites are attractive. The author explores the adverse effects of racial stereotypes. Similarly, Nella Larsen explores a similar aspect in the story titled “Passing”. Larsen demonstrates how two black women pass for whites so that they can have a sense of belonging in the society. Undoubtedly, both Morrison and Larsen demonstrate how racial stereotypes can affect the lives of Black people. The prevailing racial stereotypes have convinced many black women that they are less attractive or insufficient. As a result, many of the black women cannot explore their full potential and experience a low self-esteem due to the prevailing racial stereotypes.

Both Morrison and Larsen explore the theme of racism. They are more specific about the fact that racism registers adverse effects on Blacks. However, they demonstrate that Blacks develop attitudes about themselves that are highly destructive. Due to the prevailing stereotypes of racism, many Blacks do not consider themselves as equals to the whites. They spend their entire lives striving to become like the whites. In “The Bluest Eye”, Pecola fantasizes about having blue eyes so that everyone can love her. On the other hand, Irene and Clare pass themselves as whites to avoid being victims of racism. Undoubtedly, both authors explore the effects of racial stereotypes on blacks in a successful way.

here are my classmates’ responses that id like you to respond to:

Response 1: I will be comparing The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison to Fitzgerald’s various short stories we have read throughout this class. More specifically, I will be comparing the structure of both writings and whether if the story is told from many different perspectives, the narrator is all knowing, or the story is told only from one character. In the case of Fitzgerald, his stories are written from many different character’s perspectives. For example, in Scott Fitzgerald’s May Day the story is told from several different characters and not any one specific narrator or all-knowing outside source. In the case of the Bluest Eye by Morrison, there is also not one specific narrator. However, there is an all-knowing narrator along with a woman by the name of Claudia MacTeer. Claudia tells the story of her childhood memories of what happened to Pecola and the story’s all-knowing narrator adds to other events to tie the story’s events together also introducing other various characters surrounding Pecola’s life further explaining what happened to her. Unlike the other stories by Fitzgerald, The Bluest Eye does have a somewhat central character throughout the whole story, Pecola. The following passage is an example of the all-knowing narrator speaking of Pecola, shortly after in the chapter Claudia will add to her memories of Pecola to further tie the story together. “Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would only see what there was to see: the eyes of other people” (Morrison, 46). This story is similar, bur for the most part different solely because the narrators of The Bluest Eye is more direct and feed off of each other when comparing May Day where it is a story involving multiple narrators with multiple perspectives

response 2:

One of the profound themes in Toni Morrison’s novel is racism. Racism is mainly brought out through the character of Picola Breedlove who suffers a lot actually because of her color, family origin, and appearance. This black girl is a tragic protagonist that is used as society’s scapegoat where the dominant white want to suppress the existence of African American in the 1900s creating the fact that being white is the most important thing and ugliness and blackness is a matter of disgust and despise. This theme of racism is also prevalent in other works of writers from earlier in the semester. Hughes through his poems such as “Let America Be American Again” also talked widely about racism that African Americans found themselves in after abolition of slavery. The New Negro by Locke also recognizes the impacts of racism and how African Americans began to fight it in their society. In the essay “Mountain Victory”, Faulkner also expresses his views about racism and how it was causing wide divisions in society even after a “war”. Picola Breedlove is a tragic protagonist that suffers from reasons she is not responsible for. This indicates that just like “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane and “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, the story also takes a naturalistic point of view.

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