This continuous bullying and criticism, that Pecola has to suffer, lead her to seek escape from her misery. Almost all people repeatedly call her ugly, from other pupils to her mother. The protagonist of The Bluest Eye is a young dark-skinned and poor girl growing up in the early 1940s. Now she literally sees herself in the most perverted and tragic form. Pecola Breedlove, who could not see herself figuratively before, has solved the problem. The girl believes that her eyes have turned blue, and she invents an imaginary friend who is always there and tells her that her eyes are the bluest in the world. More than that, her baby dies, which finally leads to destroying her connection with reality.

The rape and the incident with the dog drive Pecola crazy. When the dog starts gagging and limping, Pecola believes she will get her blue eyes. Soaphead Church wants to get rid of the old, sick dog and gives Pecola the poisoned meat, saying that only feeding the dog will show if her wish comes true. He claims that he can help, but in exchange for a favor. 2 The traumatized girl loses touch with reality and goes to the priest and swindler Elihue Micah Whitcomb, nicknamed Soaphead Church, with a request to make her eyes blue. She gets pregnant after he rapes her a second time. One spring evening, Pecola is raped by his drunken father. Her mother, Pauline, fends off the problems by an orderly life, continuous cleaning, and working as a maid in a white family. Moreover, he suffers constant humiliation because of the color of his skin. She watches her father, Cholly Breedlove, who becomes increasingly violent and frustrated as his dreams are shattered. Blue eyes are a symbol of whiteness for the little girl.

She believes that her life would be better and easier if she were white, too. Pecola Breedlove, a dark-skinned girl, lives in a world owned by whites. The story begins in 1940, it is told on behalf of nine-year-old Claudia MacTeer, PecolaвЂ™s only friend, who is younger than the main character for two years. Nevertheless, this book addresses some crucial issues, such as appearance stereotypes, racism, and femininity, and depicts complex relationships between the main characters. The Bluest Eye вЂњportrays the tragedy, which results when African Americans have no resources with which to fight the standards presented to them by the white culture.вЂќ 1 The novel was banned in many American schools because of vulgar and obscene language, as well as sexually explicit descriptions. The author tells the story about the tragic fate and death of Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl whose mother knew that her dark-skinned child would grow up ugly. Toni Morrison wrote her first and famous novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970.

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