This week in English, we started discussing The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison. This book deals with many abstract and controversial ideas that were at times a bit more difficult to talk about than most other topics. One example is when the Morrison talks about Cholly Breedlove and how when he was young, he " had been surprised in some bushes by two white men while he was newly but earnestly engaged in eliciting sexual pleasure from a little country girl"(42). The thought of something happening like this is surely not made up as this is something that no one would ever wake up one day and have a vision of two white men watching a black man take part in intercourse with a girl.
On a better note, there are also some motifs that stood out to me. One being milk. In the novel, Pecola drinks a lot of milk out of a blue and white cup with Shirley Temple on it. The milk is a reference to Pecola and her want to be white and beautiful. It is said that she "internalizes the milk," just as she internalizes/desires to be white. Along with wanting to be white, she also wants to have blue eyes, which completes the reason why she likes the Shirley Temple cup. The cup's colors each represents the feature that she wants but can't have. She wants to be like Shirley Temple. Shirley is the face of beauty and Pecola wants nothing else but to be beautiful.
I think that she wants to be beautiful so that she can be the light in the darkness of her life. She wants something good in her life, as everything seems horrible and wrong. She wants a reason to think why no one wants her, because she is not beautiful. She wants to change so that she can finally accept herself and not have to wait for someone else to accept her.
On a better note, there are also some motifs that stood out to me. One being milk. In the novel, Pecola drinks a lot of milk out of a blue and white cup with Shirley Temple on it. The milk is a reference to Pecola and her want to be white and beautiful. It is said that she "internalizes the milk," just as she internalizes/desires to be white. Along with wanting to be white, she also wants to have blue eyes, which completes the reason why she likes the Shirley Temple cup. The cup's colors each represents the feature that she wants but can't have. She wants to be like Shirley Temple. Shirley is the face of beauty and Pecola wants nothing else but to be beautiful.
I think that she wants to be beautiful so that she can be the light in the darkness of her life. She wants something good in her life, as everything seems horrible and wrong. She wants a reason to think why no one wants her, because she is not beautiful. She wants to change so that she can finally accept herself and not have to wait for someone else to accept her.
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