Thursday, September 6, 2007
The Bluest Eye is about the different lives of three African American girls. Their characters and lives are described in so much detail that you feel like you are almost there. Each character had their own problems and attitudes. Pecola, I believe is the one with the most hardship. Reading about everything that happened to her was very hard and made me feel very sorry for her. When it got to the part about Cholly, I was completely disgusted. No matter what happens in someones life, I do not see how they could ever do something like that to any child, especially their own! With everything she went through she just wanted to have blue eyes. When reading, I was not sure how that made me feel, to read that she wanted blue eyes, like the white girls, to make everything better. Being white myself, I guess it makes me feel sort of sad. That people were treated so terribly that they would think that way. I do not believe that it has to do with what race you are, but how you decide to make your life. Realizing that these young girls did not have much control at the time, but later in life they would have their chance to make it better.
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I agree with your viewpoints about the way that Cholly treated his daughter. It seems that the majority of books that deal with African
American decent use such brutal behavior of the parents towards their children. The cold hard true hurts sometimes and it can really toy with your emotions. Children have no clue what sexual abuse is, and it is hard to believe that society made Pecola an outcast because of what her father did to her. She had no control over her father, yet
alone the power to try to stop him. All she wanted was to be beautiful and leave the life that she had to live. I feel as if her constant longing of blue eyes made her even sadder though. The more
she longed for them, the worse her life was. It is hard to imagine how things like this can happen in our world, but it is nice that people such as Toni Morisson had the inspiration and talent to tell
the story in a tasteful way of the difficulties that occur in people lives. It allowed the readers to really dig deep into the story of Pecola and her friends, and feel Pecola's trials and tribulations.
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