MEG Assignment

A main theme in Toni Morrison’s  The Bluest Eye is the quest for individual identity and the influences of the family and community in  that quest.  This theme is present throughout the novel and evident in many of  the characters.  Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, and Pauline Breedlove and are all embodiments of this quest for identity, as well as symbols of the quest of many of the many Black people that were moving to the north in search of greater opportunities.              The Breedlove family is a group of people under the same roof, a family by name only.  Cholly (the father) is a constantly drunk and abusive man. His abusive manner is apparent towards his wife Pauline physically and towards his daughter Pecola sexually. Pauline is a "mammy" to a white family and continues to favor them over her biological family. Pecola is a little black girl with low self esteem. The world has ...

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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