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The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)

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The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780452282193
ISBN: 0452282195
Label: Plume
Manufacturer: Plume
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2000-04-26
Publisher: Plume
Studio: Plume


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Enjoyable debut -
Author Toni Morrison novel The Bluest Eye received much praised from avid readers, book clubs and critics alike. Having soul, powerful and compelling characters and the undeniable truth landed Toni Morrison's novel in readers' favorites and Oprah's book club as well. Toni Morrison proved that she is capable of penning back to back bestselling novels that does more than reach the surface level in the literary industry. With issues such as racism, self-hatred and sexism Ms. Morrison creates The Bluest Eye and others alike.

The novel is an engaging, interesting story involving a girl who desperately desires blue eyes in order to make herself acceptable to the white population of Lorain, Ohio. The Bluest Eye is a touching story and warrants high commendation for the insightful telling of a young girl's outlook on life in her limited society. The theme of this book touches on so many social issues; from whiteness as the standard of beauty; seeing versus being seen; the power of stories; introducing sexual behavior and abuse from parents.

Racism and self hate being the two main issues in the book are centered on a trouble African American family. As it is now "whiteness" was considered the standard beauty during the time of The Bluest Eye. Pecola is fixated with having blue eyes because she believes that this would alter her life for the better. White beauty will change the way that she is seen and therefore the way that she sees the world. Pecola needs feel affection from somebody, but her family and the members of her community are not capable of loving her because they have been damaged and hurt in their own lives.

The only con to this novel is that it is a bit choppy.


Gripping, Haunting -
I literally could not stop reading, once I started.

In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison tells the story of the Breedloves, a hard-luck Black family whose existence is defined by its members' conviction that they cannot be loved as they are.

Little Pecola Breedlove longs to be loved. She decides that if she only had blue eyes, everything else would fall into place.

I learned a great deal from this book, as it describes a time and place previously unknown to me.

More importantly, though, the book deals with universal themes to which any reader can relate, primarily the struggle to build and maintain oneself within hostile environments.

This is an unforgettable story.

IDK -
It toke a while for me to get the book but it cam in good condition. Wish it was faster but it arrived in tact.

Excellent novel -
I needed to read this book for an College English Course on 21st Century Writers. Although, I was provided with a hard copy of the book for my course, I elected to purchase it on CD so I could listen to it during my work commute. It was excellent, however it is an abridged version, therefore the narration does skip parts of the novel. Overall, I thought it was great :)

G. Riley
Tennessee

Excellently written, however, irrelevant. -
The Bluesy Eye by Mrs. Morrison is written about a girl in the early 1940's. Pecola Breedlove, our protagonist, is distraught at the fact that she's a black skinned girl living in a white girl world. Mrs. Morrison does an outstanding job in her descriptions of everything with beauty in her novels. For example, whenever something that appears attractive in the novel is mentioned, it usually has the word white attached to it. By following the book closely you can tell that with everything beautiful white is the word, with everything distasteful, is described black.

Unfortunately Mrs. Morrison can take awhile before she can convey any points. One reason for this is because she changes narrators often, which makes following her points difficult. Mrs. Morrison also does not separate herself from any other novels that address struggling minorities. The character creates a fantasy world to leave her problems instead of using reasoning and creativity to address her challenges. Mrs. Morrison has created another in a long line of protagonists that point the finger instead of being self reliant. When posing questions about novels, authors should address ways to solve them among the way. Even if the topic happened fifty years before I was born. It's a book that was well written, but wasn't going anywhere from the start.

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