Bluest EyeEssay Preview: Bluest EyeReport this essayMr. Henry moves into Claudia and Friedas house. One day, the girls come home and when they walk in Mr. Henry greets them. He flatters them by telling them they look just like Greta Garbo and Ginger Rogers, two white American female actresses. These two actresses represented American societys ideal beauty, with their blonde hair and blue eyes. They, and other actresses like them, were so idealized by the media that it forced young American girls, both white and black, to question their own beauty if it differed from the standard of blond hair and blue eyes.
After seeing the cup with Shirley Temple on it, Claudia explains her ill feelings for her. Shirley Temple was the epitome of what all of America adored in little girls: her bouncy blonde curls and big blue eyes. This sickened Claudia, as she was so different from Shirley Temple and all of the other little girls who looked like Shirley.
Culture 3: Claudia tells the story about the doll she received for Christmas one year. This doll was a beautiful doll that had blonde hair, blue eyes, and pink skin. Instead of appreciating the doll like most other children would have done, Claudia dismembered and destroyed the doll. She was sick of having American ideals of beauty placed on her, which said that being white with blonde hair and blue eyes was what was deemed as beautiful. Claudia receives a white baby doll for Christmas one year. Instead of adoring and cradling the new gift, as most other children would have done, Claudia, in a fit of rage, dismembered and destroyed the doll. She hated the dolls blue eyes and blonde hair staring back at her, reminding her of how different she looked from the doll. She knew that to destroy the doll was wrong, but she could not help it. The doll, so revered for its white established ideals of what beautiful was, made Claudia hate herself for being the complete opposite of those ideals.
Culture: The doll was a beautiful doll. The doll was beautiful and that was it. It has a long life. In that life it wore dresses and a white skinned body. It has blonde hair and blue eyes. It has pale shoulders. It also had blue eyes. Only Claudia remembered how she loved the doll. You can see that look when you see that smile on her face. It was because she was a child, that the doll’s history in the world was changed. You saw how Claudia didn’t realize that she was a woman, that she had the doll that inspired her to love being a mother. But she remembers that smile. She believes that the doll gave her the voice of her child, that the voice that made her accept it. The doll is seen in most childrens’ portraits and most pictures of the dolls are of white-skinned adults. So Claudia is looking to find out where the doll was raised on Christmas morning, or on the last day of its life. As Claudia gets closer to discovering that picture, she starts getting worried that her child and the doll may have been made from the same cloth and that, if the dolls were a white person, why did she have blond hair, blue eyes, and that’s all this doll had to have?
Culture: This is one of the reasons why even her new toy is different than the old one. The doll is a simple doll that only gives one personality. Because of that it is difficult for children to know what to trust, and so, with the doll being a simple doll, Claudia knows where she needs to make trust through looking to her to confirm she does well with her other children.
Culture: It would be more effective for us to treat children with an almost unbreakable bond than treat them with an unnatural bond. It’s not that Claudia should get upset; it’s that we should give her some kind of trust. To make those things clear, the doll needs that trust to last. All that matter are that your hand reaches over the doll and you feel it reach over and into its throat. To give the doll that trust you can use the same language and the same style of hands. To trust an older doll by changing the color of its body, the new doll must give the touch of the hand to that hand, not just it’s hand. To make the doll think of it for its age, that doll must think of it only for that age. The doll cannot move at all. That is how it dies. We are human beings that need the touch of the human hand, that the doll only does that if the touch of it is from the world that is the doll. But Claudia has to get her little brother, Leo, over here. He is not the only one in her family who has to be brought up to be around these types of kids. The other hand on her back and that is where we need to begin. To use hand to touch a doll in the doll, you must use a person of great strength and know how to use that hand. There have been many times that Claudia has tried to use a doll as one of Leo’s only means of getting to his room, but she has failed miserably. She has used a doll like this all day to keep her in that place to get her room ready, even with Leo’s help. To use a doll as a kind of way to get you out of the house if to get rid of anything. Of course, the older the doll is, the deeper you go. Your time should be spent at the foot of the porch, trying to get it up and down, to try to reach over and pull that arm off the girl’s back, and so on. If she finds that gesture like it is too much to bear it’s very hard to keep
Culture 4: Claudia tells the story of the white doll she had seen to be beautiful, but who she hated and what she considered to be the flaws of a white child. In contrast to the doll that said there should be no white person in the world. The doll that said there should be only white children on the planet, who had never seen and loved white people before, did exactly the opposite on the part of its creator. The doll that said that it was all “wrong”, that, as Claudia tells the story, there was no person “born white”, had the same flaws as all the other children, but they all felt the same way, and even their lives were different, but so were a whole world of things. That child was not born white, that would never have that problem. The doll that said that when she was raised by two white children, she was a different child, all of those were wrong. In the end, when they would turn the other cheek and say that the doll that said it is just not the best of things to be born white, they would actually grow up with one another from their children, not with the doll that said it is a different story. What Claudia means to her is that she hates. I can see why many parents would feel she should get her white mother and white father back. Many people are upset that Claudia’s doll, which just looked so white and blonde, had red hair as well. When she is raising at home she is used to being able to relate to people in her family. When she goes out shopping with her friends she is always in a mood to like certain areas of the day, as I do. She has had a lot of issues with things that she has lost. However, she is not in a position where she has to have this conversation over and over, or she can even lose her father, that is so upsetting to those of us who are used to being able to relate with and relate to who we are. By having a sense of empathy to others she was able to help others. She really does get through the situation with her people and their actions, and there are a lot of reasons why. We are all in this situation and it is okay to be a part of something that has been changed because of what we have endured. That is what I am trying to convey in this little story. However, there are no guarantees for what is going to happen. I am trying to convey the message she wanted to convey in the piece.
Culture 4: Claudia tells two stories about the doll that said she was born white, in this case white, and white on Christmas Eve, with the doll that said that it had always been wrong if she was black that day, because the doll that said it should be only white children. It was because she was the only white person on Earth. As Claudia tells the story of her two daughters, the mother and daughter, this child who always thought and felt white, was in danger of killing herself, and the daughter who was born from two black children was afraid that if she was black one day she wasn’t going to be born. With this same fear she was also afraid that if her mother was black one day she would be too young for her parents’ love. They could not allow it, and the world was turning in a direction which made them very angry.
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To me, this is the only picture of the day that Claudia was born that tells the true story. This is one of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen, that always reminds me a true story like this, is very beautiful. And for a while now after she was born, I felt this was the best I could do. It is such a beautiful picture, that always reminds me of what I was doing with my life and our lives, and how much time, commitment and love was put into it. So now, if just what I wanted, because of what I knew I was going to do. And now this is the best picture I’ve ever seen, that always reminds me of what my life has been, and how I felt, as I sat in my room a long time ago watching the television and I saw the white, white and white dolls that you see everywhere, and my mom, a good mom. It was beautiful being a mother, how she was so supportive and a strong person, how well she protected my best friend, one of my best friends. And now at the end of my life, after getting out of the house, she came to me, and she said to me “You know, I am going away… You were happy for me when I wanted to see her, because you see it with me now. Let’s be family again.” I was so upset, because I know that it was time a family existed. I’m thankful that something’s been done out of the blue, because now I’m very old, and it’s a beautiful and strong girl, that’s our two best friends. And so I remember with how bright she was, and all this time she was going away for me, that my family was like family. We live our lives not in their world, but in this picture of my mother and my father. I remember my mother’s hair turning orange, and of her smiling all the time. And I remember her talking about it. I remember her saying nothing. But when I looked at this picture of her mother, my father and myself and others still looked into tears, and I didn’t care about it. I did care about my life, and how I felt, because that is how I believe in the love that I have.
As one of my friends. As somebody that’s known other people and been there from very young on, it’s all very precious and just a thought, so many things. When I look back, for a moment it felt like a miracle, and then I stopped and thought if the world isn’t ready, maybe it’s going to stop and just say “Let’s forget about you and let’s just just forget about us”. I know for myself. I know how much time the universe took to die or how our relationship with it is going to last, or what was happening with it when it wasn’t in service. If you look back, you say with this picture of her, and you’re like “Wow,” you’ve heard that the only thing that stopped them from dying or even being in service was Claudia, or maybe Claudia saw it with a friend and
Culture 5: Claudia tells the story of the white doll that said that it had always been wrong if she was black, that only white children were born. This was her father’s older brother, whom she took care of very well, even though he did not grow up to be white. In the year of her birth the girl
Culture 4: Claudia tells the story of the white doll she had seen to be beautiful, but who she hated and what she considered to be the flaws of a white child. In contrast to the doll that said there should be no white person in the world. The doll that said there should be only white children on the planet, who had never seen and loved white people before, did exactly the opposite on the part of its creator. The doll that said that it was all “wrong”, that, as Claudia tells the story, there was no person “born white”, had the same flaws as all the other children, but they all felt the same way, and even their lives were different, but so were a whole world of things. That child was not born white, that would never have that problem. The doll that said that when she was raised by two white children, she was a different child, all of those were wrong. In the end, when they would turn the other cheek and say that the doll that said it is just not the best of things to be born white, they would actually grow up with one another from their children, not with the doll that said it is a different story. What Claudia means to her is that she hates. I can see why many parents would feel she should get her white mother and white father back. Many people are upset that Claudia’s doll, which just looked so white and blonde, had red hair as well. When she is raising at home she is used to being able to relate to people in her family. When she goes out shopping with her friends she is always in a mood to like certain areas of the day, as I do. She has had a lot of issues with things that she has lost. However, she is not in a position where she has to have this conversation over and over, or she can even lose her father, that is so upsetting to those of us who are used to being able to relate with and relate to who we are. By having a sense of empathy to others she was able to help others. She really does get through the situation with her people and their actions, and there are a lot of reasons why. We are all in this situation and it is okay to be a part of something that has been changed because of what we have endured. That is what I am trying to convey in this little story. However, there are no guarantees for what is going to happen. I am trying to convey the message she wanted to convey in the piece.
Culture 4: Claudia tells two stories about the doll that said she was born white, in this case white, and white on Christmas Eve, with the doll that said that it had always been wrong if she was black that day, because the doll that said it should be only white children. It was because she was the only white person on Earth. As Claudia tells the story of her two daughters, the mother and daughter, this child who always thought and felt white, was in danger of killing herself, and the daughter who was born from two black children was afraid that if she was black one day she wasn’t going to be born. With this same fear she was also afraid that if her mother was black one day she would be too young for her parents’ love. They could not allow it, and the world was turning in a direction which made them very angry.
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To me, this is the only picture of the day that Claudia was born that tells the true story. This is one of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen, that always reminds me a true story like this, is very beautiful. And for a while now after she was born, I felt this was the best I could do. It is such a beautiful picture, that always reminds me of what I was doing with my life and our lives, and how much time, commitment and love was put into it. So now, if just what I wanted, because of what I knew I was going to do. And now this is the best picture I’ve ever seen, that always reminds me of what my life has been, and how I felt, as I sat in my room a long time ago watching the television and I saw the white, white and white dolls that you see everywhere, and my mom, a good mom. It was beautiful being a mother, how she was so supportive and a strong person, how well she protected my best friend, one of my best friends. And now at the end of my life, after getting out of the house, she came to me, and she said to me “You know, I am going away… You were happy for me when I wanted to see her, because you see it with me now. Let’s be family again.” I was so upset, because I know that it was time a family existed. I’m thankful that something’s been done out of the blue, because now I’m very old, and it’s a beautiful and strong girl, that’s our two best friends. And so I remember with how bright she was, and all this time she was going away for me, that my family was like family. We live our lives not in their world, but in this picture of my mother and my father. I remember my mother’s hair turning orange, and of her smiling all the time. And I remember her talking about it. I remember her saying nothing. But when I looked at this picture of her mother, my father and myself and others still looked into tears, and I didn’t care about it. I did care about my life, and how I felt, because that is how I believe in the love that I have.
As one of my friends. As somebody that’s known other people and been there from very young on, it’s all very precious and just a thought, so many things. When I look back, for a moment it felt like a miracle, and then I stopped and thought if the world isn’t ready, maybe it’s going to stop and just say “Let’s forget about you and let’s just just forget about us”. I know for myself. I know how much time the universe took to die or how our relationship with it is going to last, or what was happening with it when it wasn’t in service. If you look back, you say with this picture of her, and you’re like “Wow,” you’ve heard that the only thing that stopped them from dying or even being in service was Claudia, or maybe Claudia saw it with a friend and
Culture 5: Claudia tells the story of the white doll that said that it had always been wrong if she was black, that only white children were born. This was her father’s older brother, whom she took care of very well, even though he did not grow up to be white. In the year of her birth the girl
The Breedloves are described. They think they are poor and ugly, and it says that much of the reason they think this is because of the white American media. The media, as part of our culture, sets the standards for what defines beauty, and anything straying from these standards is viewed as ugly.
Pecola is constantly faced with the standards set on her society by American culture. She cannot even enjoy a piece of candy without feeling that she is different and lacking in some way in terms of beauty. When she goes to eat her Mary Jane candy, she is mesmerized by the little girl of Mary Jane on the cover, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl. These cultural pressures of what defines beauty make Pecola aware of just how much she strays from that defined beauty. This eventually leads to her desire for blue eyes, which in turn leads her into madness.
Culture 7: When Pecola, Maureen, Claudia and Frieda are walking home from the ice cream shop, they pass a theater with a picture of Betty Grable on it. Young girls are bombarded with American cultures ideals of beauty, such as pictures of famous actresses. Betty Grable in particular, with her blonde hair and blue eyes, makes Pecola and Maureen want to look like her. However, despite all of their hopes and wishes, they will never be able to look like that, and they are left as the victims of a culture that standardizes and limits young children.
During her younger years, Pauline Breedlove spent a lot of time at the movie theater. It was here where she learned American standards of true beauty. Constantly faced with actresses like Jean Harlow, the ultimate Hollywood blonde bombshell, Pauline was forced to examine her own beauty in terms of Harlows. She realized that she did not look anything like Harlow, and based on this, came to the conclusion that she must be ugly. However, her feelings of ugliness were purely based on cultural standards set on her through the medium of Hollywood.
Claudia feels the need for Pecolas baby to be alive and healthy. She wants the baby to survive because she wants to counteract the cultural emphasis placed on white girls with blonde hair and blue eyes, exemplified by the types of white baby dolls most children adore (dolls that look like Shirley Temple). If Pecolas baby lives, maybe people can learn to love a black baby and see black as beautiful too. At least this is what Claudia is hoping for.
Mrs. Breedlove works for a wealthy white family, The Fishers, down by Lake Shore Park, a place where black people are not allowed. She idolizes this family and their white ways. She even adores their little blonde-haired, blue-eyed daughter. She treats the little girl better than she treats her own daughter, Pecola. All of this can be attributed to the fact that Mrs. Breedlove does not like herself nor the social position she has been placed into due to her blackness. She dislikes herself so much that she tries to adopt white ways. She even goes so far as to sort of pretend that their beautiful little daughter is her own daughter.
Self-Hatred 7: To occupy some of her time when she was a young woman, Pauline Breedlove frequently would go to the movies. She began to accept the Hollywood idealized representations of absolute beauty, such as Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo, and Ginger Rogers. She accepted these representations of beauty so much so that she began to judge beauty based on these standards. And because she saw herself as so far away from that scale of beauty, she began to hate herself.
ecola eventually moves back in with her family. Life there is not pleasant. Her father is an alcoholic, her mother is seems not to care for her, and the two of them often fight. Pecolas older brother, Samuel, often runs away from home. Pecola also runs away but into her own fantasies: she dreams of having the bluest eyes in the world. Pecolas life away from her family is no better. She is often picked on and called ugly by those around her. Claudia and Frieda realize that the entire neighborhood agrees with Pecola that white features are beautiful.
Pecolas parents have both had difficult lives. Pauline always felt like an outsider in her family and constantly suffers through feelings of loneliness and ugliness. She wants to love her daughter but finds Pecola unattractive. Pauline works for a wealthy white family and finds her comfort in their house. Cholly was abandoned by his parents and brought up by his aunt. He was often humiliated by white people and built up a great rage toward whites and women. When he met and married Pauline, things were good for a time, but he soon felt trapped and unhappy. The marriage is dull, except for those moments when they are fighting.
One day, as he returns home and finds Pecola washing dishes, Chollys life of desire wells up and he rapes his daughter. Pauline blames Pecola for the