Professor Laura Westengard
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blog post 8 question 2
In “The Bluest Eye”Pecola is a main and very important character. Throughout the book she shows that she has little to no self esteem. Pecola is a symbol of how black people mainly women, saw themselves which was not pretty because of the sterotypical beauty. … Continue reading
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Love in the book “the bluest eye” takes differet forms. picola doesn’t really know love from her family but from other people in the story. In the story the lack of love is shown almost everywhere. In Picola’s case when … Continue reading
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Sexuality and Violence- Alison VS Dorothy
In Two or Three Things I know for sure, Alison treats violence as the inevitable outcome of sexuality. Being beautiful, being ugly, or anything of the sort- its all part of this cycle that we cant avoid. Between women and … Continue reading
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Love in the bluest eye
The theme of love in the novel is something that the girls pine after. Claudia likes the blues because she sees it as something that the singers do to show the love to their partners. Pecola imagines a friend, in … Continue reading
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Question 2
Pecola is one of the main character in the novel “The Bluest Eye”. She is a submissive and mysterious woman in the novel. Also, she seems to be fragile and delicate. Moreover, she symbolizes the black community because of her … Continue reading
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We get a glimpse of the middle class through Claudia and her family, who maintain a sense of dignity and pride. In the first chapter, she tells us, “Being a minority in both caste and class, we moved about anyway … Continue reading
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Question #4
Love is a big factor in the Novel “The Bluest Eyes “ by Toni Morrison. It plays a huge part in how the theme is set. It can be clearly seen with Pecola how lack of love affects her. Pecola … Continue reading
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Question #3
On page 17, Morrison writes, “Being a minority in both caste and class, we moved about anyway on the hem of life, struggling to consolidate our weaknesses and hang on, or to creep singly up into the major folds of … Continue reading
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Question 6
In Two or Three Things I know for Sure, Dorothy Allison compares violence to sexuality, similarly to The Bluest Eye,by Toni Morrison. Dorothy compares the relief of releasing anger to the relief of an orgasm. She states that “his … Continue reading
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Question #2
Throughout The Bluest Eye, Pecola is the main major character despite Claudia’s perspectives within its story. I think Pecola is somewhat a symbol of the black community’s self hatred and belief in its own ugliness. She has this huge admiration … Continue reading
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