The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Bluest Eye
Book Review: A Beautiful Book
Summary: 4 Stars
I first read this book a few years ago and was surprised by thepower and beauty in Morrison's words. After reading the book again, Iam again struck by how much she can say in this little book. Pecola is a pathetic figure that makes one truly question their place in the world. The idea that to be beautiful one must look a certain way is an idea Pecola struggles with every day in her search for "the bluest eyes" as many of us in today's world also struggle to be happy with our identities. I enjoyed reading this book and highly recommend reading it.Book Review: A Heart Warming Story
Summary: 5 Stars
This wonderful novel is a story of an eleven year old girl, Pecola, who goes through the hardships in life such as being raised in a ghetto neighborhood, how it is like to be treated when your African-American, wishing you could be beautiful like the blue-eyed white girls in school, and growing up physically as a girl. Pecola grows up in a big family and her family suffers through many hardships because they are not wealthy; they eat leftovers and buy cheap groceries. Pecola prays that she could be one of the little girls who sleep in their extravagant beds with little Raggedy-Ann dolls with pictures of their family all by their bedside (Morrison 20). She just wishes her family was normal, which they are far from it. Her father got drunk every night and would have weird rants, her brother has a traumatizing experience (almost like being raped), and the mother is just a little on the "loony" side.
Not only does Oprah recommend this book, but I do because you could easily relate to Pecola personally. If you have ever lived in a poor neighboorhood or knew someone that went through hardships in a neighborhood like that then you would really enjoy this book. The author, Toni Morrison, uses amazing detail and imagery that makes the story really easy to picture in your mind.
The reader would like this book because it shows what a pre-teen girl in the 1960's had to go through in everyday life.
Book Review: A Raving Beauty
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bluest Eye is the second inspiring novel we have read by Toni Morrison. The first, Beloved, had a animated and charged plot. However, The Bluest Eye steered in a different direction. We were put inside the life of a struggling teenage girl striving to be a part of the "perfect society". The novel touched us because we are two teenage girls reading about the hardships of prejudism through the eyes of young women. There are not many novels that send a message through the lives of young women. That is what places this novel in a class of its own. We recommend this novel to all young women who are mature enough to handle the realities of prejudism and the sexual scenes. This book will be an eye-opener to all who read it. This was written by two students of Mercy High School.Book Review: A Relection of life
Summary: 4 Stars
I read The Bluest Eye, in high school. The perfect place to read a book like this, where everyone is so caught up in the outward appearance. It's a sad tale of a young girl, named Pecola growing up in a bad neighborhood with careless parents. All Pecola wants in life is to be loved and in the society she lives in having blue eyes was concidered beautiful, so every day she wishes for blue eyes. This is a heart wrenching tale of young Pecola and the extent of her desperation to be loved in a world that conciders her "ugly". I recommend this book for all mature readers, for there is content not appropriate for younger readers.Book Review: A Response
Summary: 3 Stars
Of all of Morrison's novels, The Bluest Eye is not one of myfavorites. However, The Bluest Eye is a compelling novel that forcesthe reader to examine how they feel about issues no one wants to face. Thank goodness for Toni Morrison, a woman that isn't afraid to write what needs to be written.