A large number of the residents work in the steel mills in the town. The novel starts in 1940 when the economy of Lorain depends on the industry. It is a small town located on the bank of Lake Erie. The development was a push to neutralize the then unmistakable thought that white individuals were more wonderful and attractive than dark individuals. The movement urged dark individuals to acknowledge the natural features of their personality, and shun fixing their hair or endeavoring to help fade their skin. The Black is Beautiful Movement, intended to wipe out the possibility that dark individuals’ common traits, like the color of the skins, facial traits, and hair are inalienably appalling and ugly. Inside this Civil Rights Movement, another movement emerged stating that Black is Beautiful. Although the novel is written before this Movement literally gained its pace, the basic themes and core issues of the novel are the same as that of the Movement. The Bluest Eye is peened down in the era when the Civil Rights Movement in the United States was at its peak. The novel revolves around the core issue of racial discrimination of black by white people. This causes her to become a mother at the cost of losing her sanity and she roams around in the neighborhood as a mad girl. Her brother Sammy usually runs away from the house because of the fight of the parents. It is a cold house with a gloomy and bleak atmosphere. The Breedlove home is a storefront and it is converted into a house so the Breedloves could live in. Pecola Breedlove returns to live with her family, and we see parts of her life delineated in various sections of the novel. She develops a good friendship with Claudia and Frieda.Īlthough she befriends the two young girls yet she remains desolate, mistreated, and ignored. When her father, Cholly Breedlove, sets the house on fire, Pecola is sent by social welfare to stay with the MacTeer family. The plot of this novel is fabricated around the life of a black girl, Pecola. Toni Morrison is the Nobel Prize-winning author. It is the first novel written by Toni Morrison.

The Bluest Eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison.

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