The Bluest Eye

Electronic resource

English language

Published Nov. 8, 2004 by RosettaBooks.

ISBN:
978-0-7953-2737-7
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OCLC Number:
54487277

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The bluest eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. A black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different.

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"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."

Subjects

  • African Americans
  • Girls
  • Fiction

Places

  • Ohio