Book Review on The Bluest Eye

The "Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison deals with many different issues. Race, beauty, poverty, beauty, abuse and sex. The Bluest Eye takes place in the 1940's in Loraine, Ohio a town know for it's coal mines. Segregation between blacks and white was big in the town. The white families had the nicer homes, clothes, cars everything. The troubles most blacks affected their behavior, some like Cholly Breedlove, father of Pecola Breedlove. Cholly was a drunk. Wasted his money on alcohol and was lazy. He didn't have a healthy relationship with his wife and children, because he abused them, in particular Pecola. He enpregnanted his her.
As if being sexually abused was't enough Pecola had other problems. She was picked on consantly from her classmates for her appearance and because of her father. All that added up to her insecurities, what eventually drove her crazy. Pecola didn't have much friends except Claudia, her younger sister Frieda and the prositutes that lived above her. Strange you would say, that this young girl hung around these type of women? They tought Pecola about love and life. This very much so was a friendship even it was strange combination of people. They looked out for Pecola. Pecola being so young and fagile was so rulnerble and was hurt by many.
As Pecola's insecurites worstened she became crazier. She thought if she had blue eyes that nothing and no one would hurt her. At the end of the book she thinks she actually has blue eyes.



Reflection: My thesis originated from this book so I felt it was appropriate for me to do this book review.