· The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful as beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. · The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove/5(K). Oprah Book Club® Selection, April Originally published in , The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me."/5(K).
The Bluest Eye is not only a story but an awe-inspiring poem that confronts beauty itself and the consequences of beauty standards on individuals that do not meet them. Beauty is an obsession that. The Bluest Eye, published in , is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove-a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others-who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful. The list of "disturbing" titles included Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.. According to.
Book-banning controversies. Montgomery County, Maryland. The Bluest Eye was legally challenged on Febru by a mother from Montgomery County, Maryland named Christine Baker City, Oregon. Claremont, New Hampshire. Littleton, Colorado. Howell, Michigan. The literary piece “The Bluest Eye,” written by Toni Morrison and published in circa , has centered on the story of an eleven-year-old female character, Pecola Breedlove (Foerstel, ). The central theme that has been apparent in the story is the desire of Pecola to have white skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes. The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful as beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America.
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