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The Bluest Eye
(toni morrison)

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We have often heard people say that beauty is skin deep. It may indeed be deeper. Yet, what charms us is what pleases the eye. And we are often bound to think-" should we see ourselves only in the mirror or just look into someone?s eyes"

pecola breedlove, a 12 year old afro-American, the protagonist of the novel ?the bluest eye? ponders the same. She chose to see in the eyes of the people. She found she was black, harelip, repulsive, ugly. But who told her so? Who told her that th white skinned, blond hair, blue eyed girls were better than she, that they were beautiful. Pecola yearns for blue eyes, she prays for it every night before retiring to bed. She thinks of it in the morning when she stands facing the mirror which reflects the horror of her life, of her ugliness, of how people stare at her with a vacuum in their eyes. Why don?t they see her with the same love, the same wanting with which they see the whites?
It is her own parents, her own community, tye society that has made her feel that she is ugly. It is this realization that drives her to the brink of madness, that which keeps her away from her mother?s love, from her friend?s warmth, from the gaze of the stranger and it is this ugliness that in the end fills her father with a rage that he rapes her. He wants to destroy forever the ugliness that he has given rise to. Pecola gets not just the blue eye, she gets the bluest one, the most beautiful one. She gets it at the cost of her sanity. She dlievers a still born and talks to herself in th mirror-

"How beautiful I am?.i wish these blue eyes stay forever?oh! Tell me?aren?t they really b?ful?will they stay so forever?should they stay th same forever? oh! All those who envy me?."

Her madness gives her blue eyes, a symbol of her vision,. Now she could view the world differently and to her it was b?ful. Pecola wished for blue eyes so that the world could see her differently.The novel poses the same question to us. It question the idea of beauty and the importance our society has given to it. It compels us to think and rethink that if societ can be the builder of mankind it too can be its sole destroyer. We, the readers, suffer with pecola and ask people around to think?afterall?how imporatnt it is to be beautiful? What does it mean to be beautiful?



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