9In this revised edition, Linda Wagner-Martin offers a compelling study of African American writer Toni Morrisons work, beginning with The Bluest Eye. Quote 1: "We stare at her, wanting her bread, but more than that wanting to poke the arrogance out of her eyes and smash the pride of ownership that curls her chewing mouth." pg. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision.
16The Bluest Eye How to Cite LitCharts. Even after what came later, there was no bitterness in our memory of him." pg. Nobel Prize in Literature winner Toni Morrison published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970 that is to say only a few years after the end of racial.Quote 2: "We loved him.
From Part I - Toni Morrisons fiction. 20-211 - The Bluest Eye and Sula: black female experience from childhood to womanhood. 'Here,' they said, 'this is beautiful, and if you are on this day "worthy" you may have it.'" pp. Everything you need for every book you read.Quote 3: "Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window sign - all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured. And presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive.' Get LitCharts A +. The way the content is organized.
There is a sense of being in anger. Anger stirs and wakes in her it opens its mouth, and like a hot-mouthed puppy, laps up the dredges of her shame. They are weeds.' Preoccupied with that revelation, she trips on the sidewalk crack. She thinks, 'They are ugly. But they do not look at her and do not send love back.
73Quote 9: "White kids his mother did not like him to play with niggers. 65Quote 8: "'I am cute! And you ugly! Black and ugly black e mos. They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds - cooled - and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path." pg. 50Quote 7: "It was their contempt for their own blackness that gave the first insult its teeth.
He talked with her about her foot and asked, when they walked through the town or in the fields, if she were tired. He seemed to relish her company and even to enjoy her country ways and lack of knowledge about city things. 87Quote 10: "Pauline and Cholly loved each other. Colored people were neat and quiet niggers were dirty and loud." pg. They were easily identifiable.
She was secure and grateful he was kind and lively. But minus the gloom of setting suns and lonely river banks. And he did touch her, firmly but gently, just as she had dreamed. For the first time Pauline felt that her bad foot was an asset.
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The flashlight wormed its way into his guts and turned the sweet taste of muscadine into rotten fetid bile. He almost wished he could do it - hard, long, and painfully, he hated her so much. 122Quote 12: "Cholly, moving faster, looked at Darlene. 115-16Quote 11: "In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap.She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen." pg.
Anger that he was powerless to help her. A surge of love and understanding swept through him, but was quickly replaced by anger. 148Quote 13: "Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty. They looked like baby claws." pg.
190Quote 15: " the air, a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reach - could not even see - but which filled the valleys of the mind." pg. 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." pg. No synthetic yellow bangs suspended over marble-blue eyes, no pinched nose and bowline mouth. 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. 174Quote 14: "I thought about the baby that everyone wanted dead, and saw it very clearly. A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes." pg.
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