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The Bluest Eye - Online Term Paper

The Bluest Eye

Beauty is something that a lot of people in life strive for , because everyone has fitted in their mind what exactly beauty is. People know that it can help you out in life. But what most people don’t know is that, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Meaning that beauty should not be characterized by what people are told it is, beauty is different for everyone, what is beautiful for you may be ugly to someone else. The characters in Toni Morrison’s are confronted with the ideal of beauty and strive for it whether they know it or not. The two characters that I think were followed the ideal of beauty in Toni Morrison’s story are Pauline and Pecola.
In Toni Morrison’s story and in ...

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try, the worse things get.

Pauline strived for beauty because she wanted to attention and wanted to be beautiful. Pauline seemed to have just worse case of bad luck, when she was a child she stepped on a nail and she was left with a limp forever. "The wound left her with a crooked, archless foot that flopped when she walked….." (110). She tried to put that behind her but she lost three middle teeth, not all the same time but slowly. It wasn’t because her teeth were rotten, the tooth just fell out. "I was sitting back in my seat, and I taken a big bite of that candy, and it pulled a tooth right out of my mouth. I could of cried. I had good teeth, not a rotten one in my head. I don’t believe I ever did get over that" (122). After trying so hard to become beautiful and things going bad the harder she tried , she just gave up.

Pecola strived for beauty throughout the whole book, she knew that people though she was an ugly child. So she ...

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Added: 9/12/2006 09:21:39 AM
Category: English
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