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The bluest eye

Date Submitted: 12/13/2004 23:55:16
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 3 pages (744 words)
Views: 187423

"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, is an adaptation of how oppression emotionally and psychologically impacts a young girl named Pecola. Pecola was oppressed by society, by her community, and by her own family. As a result her reality is subjectively based on the premise that if she could have "blue eyes" she would then be revered by all of her oppressors. Throughout the story Pecola appears to be a scapegoat of her oppressors. She …

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