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The Bluest Eye (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
Toni Morrison does a great job with this one, though I must confess it's the only Toni Morrison book I've read. The main character in particular is very believable and the story is both heart-wrenching and inspiring. To make things even better it is an easily readable book, which is hard to pull off when dealing with the book's subject matter, i.e., racism and the question of what really constitutes "beauty."Right now, I would call this novel "beautiful": a beautiful character, story and writing. On top of it it was a great pleasure to read. Beautiful.
The Bluest Eye (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
First of all this is the first Toni Morrison book I have read. I also have not read very much literature. I enjoyed the book entirely. I feel I missed some important points along the way though. It is difficult when the story bounces around quite a bit. The afterword was a help. Thanks. It takes plenty of patience to get through this book. A second reading would probably be a benefit for me. I am hoping when Oprah has her book club dinner, a few more things will be cleared up. Now I know what it takes to get a Nobel Prize..
The Bluest Eye (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
Granted I am a guy, a white guy at that, but a relatively evolved and enlightened one (or so my wife says when not pummeling me with a rolling pin). However, when assigned to read this for a woman's literature class in art school, I began visualizing forms of torture I would rather endure than finish this book. Call me a simpleton, but bare minimum, a book has to have a PLOT! If there is a guy out there who can choke down this book without bleeding from the eyes, the first round of medicinal post-read bourbon is on me. Sorry...for what it's worth, though, I loved Fried Green Tomatoes and Joy Luck Club
The Bluest Eye (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
The Bluesy Eye by Mrs. Morrison is written about a girl in the early 1940's. Pecola Breedlove, our protagonist, is distraught at the fact that she's a black skinned girl living in a white girl world. Mrs. Morrison does an outstanding job in her descriptions of everything with beauty in her novels. For example, whenever something that appears attractive in the novel is mentioned, it usually has the word white attached to it. By following the book closely you can tell that with everything beautiful white is the word, with everything distasteful, is described black.Unfortunately Mrs. Morrison can take awhile before she can convey any points. One reason for this is because she changes narrators often, which makes following her points difficult. Mrs. Morrison also does not separate herself from any other novels that address struggling minorities. The character creates a fantasy world to leave her problems instead of using reasoning and creativity to address her challenges. Mrs. Morrison has created another in a long line of protagonists that point the finger instead of being self reliant. When posing questions about novels, authors should address ways to solve them among the way. Even if the topic happened fifty years before I was born. It's a book that was well written, but wasn't going anywhere from the start.
The Bluest Eye (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
Indeed, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is a novel that forces the imagination to reach into the conscious to find Jesus the giver of imperfect humanity as Pecola Breedlove is that symbol. She is not the tragic character many believe her to be; she is, I am convinced, a symbol of the divine. She yearns for blues eyes as those eyes are a representation of what is best in the world. If that is not a fact, that is because of the imperfectness of those who created the "ugly" in blue. Pecola did not do that; therefore, she is not tragic. Her gift is that she let the human beings around her dump their "garbage onto her." Jesus did the same thing. The Bluest Eye is a superb work. It forces one to travel deep, into and underneath the human spirt into the divine. That I see in the little girl who yearns for blue eyes.
The Bluest Eye (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
This book had kept me wondering what the next chapter would be.At the end of a Chapter I had gathered all my Information on that one chapter in a part of my head to get ready to read the next amazing chapter!This Book should go to a mature teenager and is a Good book for older teens.And Yes i do like to randomly capitalize Words =)