Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes: Use of Color. Pauline saw the beauty of life through the colors of her childhood down South. Her fondest memories were of purple berries, yellow lemonade, and that streak of green them June bugs made on the trees the night we left down-home.
This week, members of the Ohio Board of Education criticized one of the literary works of fellow Ohioan and acclaimed author Toni Morrison for being “totally inappropriate.” They do not want Ohio 11 th graders to read Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye because it references rape, among other controversial issues.Ohio Board of Education President Debe Terhar labeled the novel “ pornographic.”Board member Mark Smith traveled back to the 1950s for his rhetoric, calling the novel part of “ an underlying socialist-communist agenda.”Take Action! Stand up for Toni Morrison and stop the promotion of censorship in Ohio schools.Read Wilmington College professor Laura Struve's piece, Here Is What’s Wrong With Banning The Bluest EyeThis type of criticism is nothing new. Pecola as an African American girl, relates social acceptance and beauty to whiteness, which makes her have the desire to acquire 'the bluest eye'.Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity-and asks questions about race, class, and gender with her.3-4 pages typed, double-spaced, stapled in 12-point Times New Roman or Garamond font and one-inch margins. Pauline and Cholly left the colors. Keywords: Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, African-American, racial discrimination, inferiority complex Different from other writers, Toni Morrison adopted a fairy tale-like passage repeated three times in different formats as a way to demonstrate the white dominance In her “Forward,” Toni Morrison claims, “Beauty was not simply something to behold it was something one could do” (xi). With The Bluest Eye, Morrison aims, in part, to uncover not only the ways in which beauty has been created but also the ways that beauty has been withheld and denied from an entire race and how such aesthetic demonization works to promote racial self-loathing and contempt.
Her alcoholic father rapes her, and eventually she becomes pregnant. She is a quiet girl with parents who are constantly fighting and telling her she is ugly, thus fueling her desire to be a beautiful white girl with blue eyes. Reading about these issues, especially in the school setting, is not something that has historically sat well with some Americans who tend to want our children to learn only about subjects that are “good,” while shielding them from the “bad.” Unfortunately, this puts The Bluest Eye in the category of “bad.”The novel’s main character Pecola Breedlove is a young African American girl living in post-Depression Lorain, Ohio.
These events are part of the ACLU of Ohio’s yearly celebration of Banned Books Week, a national effort launched in 1982 aimed at drawing attention to literature that has been the target of censorship.
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