The Bluest Eye

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  This book is written in a complex and powerful way, in a language that strikes the reader for its almost poetic quality, while at the same time attempting to reproduce the pidgin English of the characters. More importantly, in this novel Toni Morrison portrays and sheds light on one of the most deva ... (continue)

  This book is written in a complex and powerful way, in a language that strikes the reader for its almost poetic quality, while at the same time attempting to reproduce the pidgin English of the characters. More importantly, in this novel Toni Morrison portrays and sheds light on one of the most devastating effects of racism, self-hate.

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  Elaine said on Apr 4, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Beautiful, like the bluest eye.

  Check out what I wrote in my blog: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2011/11/bluest-eye-…

  This is a very beautiful story about a girl that thinks that she is not pretty. Her skin is dark, her eyes are dark, and she thinks that all her problems will go away if she gets blue eyes ... (continue)

  Check out what I wrote in my blog: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2011/11/bluest-eye-…

  This is a very beautiful story about a girl that thinks that she is not pretty. Her skin is dark, her eyes are dark, and she thinks that all her problems will go away if she gets blue eyes. Even showing all the devastation in this novel, the social problems, the ignorance, violence, etc. Even with all of that, the novel is beautiful; is nice to read and it is really stunning and make-think. I really liked it.

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  ariadna73 said on Nov 2, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  "I thought about the baby that everyone wanted dead, and saw it very clearly. It was in a dark, wet place, its head covered with O's of wool, the black face holding, like nickels, two clean black eyes, the flared nose, kissing-thick lips, and the living, breathing silk of black skin. No synthetic ye ... (continue)

  "I thought about the baby that everyone wanted dead, and saw it very clearly. It was in a dark, wet place, its head covered with O's of wool, the black face holding, like nickels, two clean black eyes, the flared nose, kissing-thick lips, and the living, breathing silk of black skin. No synthetic yellow bangs suspended over marble-blue eyes, no pinched nose and bowline mouth. More strongly than my fondness for Pecola, I felt a need for someone to want the black baby to live--just to counteract the universal love of white baby dolls, Shirley Temples, and Maureen Peals."

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  Kirsten Groody said on Aug 22, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  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 beau ... (continue)

  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 and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom, Pecola's life does change - in painful, devastating ways.

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  meganzing said on Aug 8, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  It's really difficult to find words for the ones I really love, like this one.

  It's silently stunning.

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  Sophie said on Apr 29, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Another book I had to read for class. I didn't like as much as I liked her other ones. I did read the others when I was in high school, but I found this book disinteresting in certain places, especially in the long letter of Soaphead Church. The depth that the story goes into him over him bored me t ... (continue)

  Another book I had to read for class. I didn't like as much as I liked her other ones. I did read the others when I was in high school, but I found this book disinteresting in certain places, especially in the long letter of Soaphead Church. The depth that the story goes into him over him bored me to tears. I thought it was far too much info to be given such a minor character despite the fact that he plays a big role...in the end.

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  Charley Snipe said on Apr 2, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• ISBN-10: 0812410971
• ISBN-13: 9780812410976
• Publisher: Perfection Learning Prebound
• Pub date: Jul 01, 1984
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding and Unbound
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書

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