bluest eye by toni morrison



Novel by Toni Morrison is about a Black girl Pecola's DESIRE for the Blue eye. The novel beautifully talks about how black people were suffering in America. Reading text like this gives understanding that one should not do like that with others. Humanity is more important than caste, religion or race
The treatment of Pecola and her mother in the novel is painful. And more disturbing thing is that Pecola- a little girl is raped and made pregnant by her own father.
In the beginning of the novel season autumn is described. It is a season of fall. Trees loses its leaves, symbolically it suggests Pecola's losing her own child.


Then Morrison also gives description that how she was teased by other friends. Her father used to beat her mother.




Pecola's mother was working in a house of a white man. If we apply concept of Frantz Fanon discussed in "Black skin White Masks", then we can understand the psyche of black people. They wanted to become white. They desired whiteness, which is not possible at all. Being black people they wanted to enter into the white world. That's why Pecola's mother was working into the white people's house. It was considered that White is virtue and Black is evil. The rumors were spread about black that they are violent, cruel and barbaric.

So, Black writer writes back to whatever written by white masters.





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