First, the story is told in different perspectives. There were many things that I liked about " The Bluest Eye". She imagined that she had blue eyes and how much better she would look and be treated. Pecola feels that she is ugly and that white is beautiful. Her parents fight, her dad drinks a lot and Pecola gets no attention. After the Great Depression, the family has many financial issues causing them to live in poverty in a store front apartment. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is a dramatic narrative about two sisters named Claudia and Frieda who live in Ohio with their parents.
However, I still felt that she was excusing his actions, which slightly repulsed me. She was trying to bring some humanity and explanation to the "bad guy" in the situation, which few authors bother to do. I understood what the author was trying to do when she described the father's childhood troubles and the rape from his point of view. However, the book included the rape of the young girl, Pecola, by her father. The premise of the book was supposedly race relations, or at least that's what was written in the back. No way would a little kid speak in such sophisticated language. What bothered me most was that the narrator was a young girl. It almost seemed that the author wrote the book to show something off just begging for some award and recognition. I was frustrated at the paragraphs upon paragraphs of uneeded large words and descriptions. As I began the book, only one word came to mind: pretentious. Seeing as this book apparently won the Nobel Prize in Literature, I was surprised that I couldn't even find the correct book on goodreads.
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