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How do you account for Pecola’s low self-esteem and her quest for blue eyes in The Bluest Eye? Pecola’s family never gives her the love and support a child needs. Her mother is abusive and negligent, concerned only with her own lack of self-esteem. Pecola’s father rapes her, thinking she is her mother at a younger age. Like her mother, Pecola wants to be beautiful, defining beauty according to the white world’s standards. Having blue eyes is at the core of feeling beautiful to Pecola. She is consumed with having blue eyes, feeling this will bring her the love she has never received. Her obsession leads to her madness. In the book "The Bluest Eye" Pecola has grown up in a society that values everything white.  In the school setting, the lightest skin girls are thought to be the most attractive.  When the children compare their features they are compared to the features that a white girl has. In the book Pescola's low self-esteem has derived as much from the se

Toni Morrison is the most prominent and successful African American woman writer of the 20th century. She received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 for her outstanding achievement on writing, and became the first African American woman writer to win this award. She is clearly aware that the dignity and identity of the black are based on the relatively integrated African American culture. Most of her stories happened in the black community, where the daily life of the ordinary black people is connected closely with the myth and folk tradition of Africa. Narrative Structure The Bluest Eye (Narrative) Toni Morrison structured the bluest eye in terms of four different sections that entail autumn, winter, spring and summer. She makes a connection between what is happening in the story with the four seasons. Furthermore, she delivers ideas in the perspective of different characters such as Pecola, Claudia, Frieda and other important characters, therefore demonstrating co

Wallace Stevens’ “Sunday Morning”, as many of his poems, combines almost austerely complex intellectual puzzles and abstract tone with sensuous and striking imagery. Written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, it uses a mixture of strong concrete words with polysyllabic abstractions, to give theological conundrums, as it were, a local habitation and a name. As the title suggests, a Sunday Morning is normally associated with church-going, but the female protagonist of the poem is observing nature rather... ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… critical appreciation of WALLACE STEVEN'S In the first stanza, a complacent woman lounges in her dressing gown late into a Sunday morning, eating a leisurely breakfast and enjoying the vivid, vibrant beauty of the natural world around her. She takes great pleasure in her coffee and oranges, her mood reflected by the “sunny” chair and the cockatoo that has been released onto the rug. She is spending a morning at h

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MEG-10 3. What does nativisation of English mean in the Indian context? Explain. Ans: It is often the case that a foreign language can have such power and influence over an individual or country as to be adopted into their culture and way of life. As in the case of India, the English language was introduced decades ago and used prolifically by the English colonists who settled there and governed the country for over one hundred years.  It stands to reason then that some nativization of Indians could and did occur!  Especially since Indian natives were used as servants, nannies, workers, and comrades-in-arms throughout the years!  The Indians literally lived, worked, and associated with the English in every aspect of their lives,  adopted their dress, ate their food, and learned to speak their language.  Then, these natives took that culture back to their own homes and influenced their own families. Over the years, because every Indian was exposed to the English langua