The Bluest Eye - BookWyrm

Mass Market Paperback, 160 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 1972 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-671-82323-8
OCLC Number:: 476340897

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Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes.

In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her.

When someone finally did, it was her father, drunk. He raped her. Soon she would bear his child...

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t o d d w a r n e r reviewed The bluest eye by Toni Morrison

An incredible work

5 stars

"And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word."