The narrator follows the story of the Breedloves to reveal how each family member is anchored by the racist conceptions they’ve been convinced of. Pecola struggles under the oppressive weight of her ugliness and wishes for blue eyes to relieve her pressure. While there is nothing about her that is particularly ugly, it is immediately understood by each character that Pecola is and always was ugly. The book centers on Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl who lies firmly outside her community’s beauty standard. The book was ranked 10 on the American Library Association’s most frequently challenged book list from 2010-2019.Īnd that’s a shame because The Bluest Eye is an insightful gem, providing a window into the extent of feelings of shame and self-hatred over skin color that many will never experience and written in an impactful stylistic prose similar to poetry. This is a position The Bluest Eye is frequently found in. Wentzville District Board Member Sandy Garber cited obscenity as the reason for its ban, and said that the book had “no academic value.” That’s because it was recently banned January 20, and then reinstated February 25, from Wentzville schools. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is a novel published in 1970 that has recently gained a lot of attention, especially locally.
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