Reading this book gave me the idea that slavery still exists. I know that it's just a book. The author of this book described some characters that will give the reader an idea of how things were in the past. For instance, attention to Pecola who admit herself of having no value. Her mother thinks that she is an ugly and unattractive person.
It is difficult for a child to have trust in parents when the child could not even have relief in life or being accepted. The doll that Pecola has and its eyes of blue color makes her think that white people are more pretty than her.
It is only in Pecola’s imagination, but her original love of having a beautiful brown color and that beauty is found inside of herself and not only on outside of the skin is not truly mention through the author. I find it regretful that the author did not pay much attention to that.
My other comments on the “Bluest Eye” is that there is a lot of sexual pages in the text which is sometimes disturbing and not linking to the subject what the author is trying to explain. There are more flashbacks and this makes the text sometimes confusing.
Finally, in the “Bluest Eye”, religion plays an important role. The author wants the readers to participate with her. For example, to those who are atheist and have nothing to do with religion, it might be disturbing reading those pages. After all the suffering that is described in the “Bluest Eye”, I think that the author wants to deliver a message concerning equality, freedom and hope for all colors. It could be that I’m wrong. My question to you is, what is your opinion that author Toni Morrison would like to bring over to the reader with the title “The Bluest Eye”?
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I do think that slavery stills exists, even in the 'free world'. However, I think it's more emotionally than it is physically. A lot of minorities are still a slave to expectations and the way they want to embody that. I think that white people's expectations of what black people should be like - erroneous though it may be - still has sway of the actions and behaviour of black people.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenStereotypes still exist and a lot of people conform to them, whether they realize it or not. Like Vanya said in one of her posts, she expects people to think she's stupid because of her blonde hair. A lot of people have said that this isn't the case, but the fact remains that she expected them to. She was stuck in the stereotype herself.
It's what makes racism so very difficult to deal with, because it exists in the mind as well. How can you tell whether it's actual racism, or imagined. Just like Vanya's case, where she expected people to treat her differently because she was blonde.
This is what makes everything so difficult, because we are trapped in our own stereotypes just as much as people keep us trapped in it.