The Effect of Standard of Beauty toward Pecola in The Bluest Eye

"Blue eyes" will be held in Roland, Ohio around 1940. In 1940, discrimination against African Americans was still a serious problem. People believe that whiteness is a standard of beauty. The hero is a 9 year old African-American pecola, affected by how people perceive beauty. I felt Pekora suffering, not as good as someone else. Pecora believes that she can feel beautiful by having a pair of blue eyes and it will be the key to solving all problems.

In Toni Morrison's "The Blue Eye", beauty is defined simply as golden hair, fair skin, blue eyes, and the beauty of white culture. The blue eyes show Pecora, its only wish is to have blue eyes. Pecola is a girl who was exiled from her house and detained in the county, as her father, Cholly Breedlove, burned down the house. She finally moved to McTee house next to a black family. Pekora represents the black culture. Her wish is so innocent that her character is itself a tragedy. But that leads to her death. Pecora is a symbol of self-hatred and self decline, a common feature of "the blue eyes". Her belief is not her own. Instead, she accepted the belief that society imposed on her young innocent thought. Beauty is everything she does not do, and every thing she will never do. At the beginning of the book, Pekora is suffering from the concept of beauty. "Dandelion. I think it is very beautiful.

In 'The Bluest Eyes', the author Toni Morrison depicts the American concept and his standards for African Americans living in an American white society through a narrator called Claudia. Because she is an innocent girl born in her family and does not provide support to endure the racial prejudice of society, the protagonist of Morrison's novel, Pecola Breed Love, is one of the most victims It is real. A small black girl Pecola is eager for a blue eyes, it shows that the white dominated culture absorbed almost African-American women and lost them.