The bluest eye door Toni Morrison

Title explanation Pecula is the principal person in this book, and she’s obsessed with blue eyes, because she’s black, and she thinks that when she had blue eyes, every problem in her live would be gone and she at last would really exist. Place This story is set in Ohio, in the U.S. Time This story is set in the fall of 1941. Maybe it begins in 1939 and ends in 1941. “Quiet as it’s kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941.” The time that is covered in the story is one year. There are four chapters, with the titles: Autumn, Winter, Summer and Spring. So that’s altogether a year. But I think a part of the winter, is a flashback, so I don’t know sure how long the time is covered. It was very difficult to read, because one time the story takes place by the family MacTeer, but the other time, the story is set by the family Breedlove. And I think there are 3 narrators, but sometimes you don’t know which one of the narrators tells. Main character Pecula Breedlove Pecola is a lonely, black, poor girl and she’s twelve years old. She’s a bit dreamy, there are many pages describe about they way she looks at life. She has brown, fuzzy hair and brown eyes. Pecola thinks she’s ugly, but I think that she’s fair pretty, because Pecola only thinks that she’s ugly, because of her brown eyes, well I like brown eyes, so I think she is pretty. In the begin of this book she’s a little girl full of dreams and hope, but later, when she is pregnant of her father, but get a miscarriage, at the end of the book she lost her mind. She talks to her new “friend,” who nobody else can see. It’s very sad.
Claudia MacTeer Claudia is the narrator of the first section in each of the four units. Claudia is nine years old, when Pecola comes in her house to life there. She’s extremely bright, and can almost everything explain what’s happening in the world, on a childish way. She’s lucky because she comes from loving family that owns her own house. There didn’t become talk about the appearance of Claudia, but she’s a little black girl. She doesn’t change in this book, maybe she a little bit more serious. Frieda MacTeer She is the sister of Claudia and eleven years old. Like her sister she’s sensitive and concerned about Pecola. She is the more fearless of the two sisters. She leads the “MacTeer sisters” and makes important decisions at several places in the novel. She is also black, just a little bit bigger, I think but I don’t know sure. She doesn’t change in the novel except she becomes older and a bit more serious. Summary The book tells a story about a little girl, Pecula, she lives in Ohio, with her family, who are poor and black. The Bluest eye is split in four parts, each named after a season. Pecola lives in a storefront, cold and vacant. When Cholly Breedlove, Pecola's father, attempts to burn their house down, Pecola is sent by social workers to stay temporarily with the MacTeers. Pecola becomes menstruating, while she is living by the MacTeers. Frieda and Claudia become friends with Pecola. Pecola has a happy time with the MacTeers, because Mrs. MacTeer and Mr. MacTeer are loving and protective. But then she must back to her own home. She lives in a convicted storefront, cold and vacant. Her parents only quarrelling and even fighting. Mrs. Breedlove gives all her love to the white family, for whom she works. Mr. Breedlove (Cholly) is an angry and irresponsible
man, violent, cruel, and uncontrollable. Pecola is obsessed with blue eyes, she prays for them constantly, and is convinced that by making her beautiful the blue eyes would change her life. Pecola’s life becomes describe by Claudia, who writes many little things, for example the ‘thoughts’ of Pecola, how she thinks of the white girl (with blue eyes!) that stands on a candy paper, or how she looks at the world. To get away from her parents, Pecola spends a great deal of time with the three whores, who live upstairs. China, Poland and Marie accepted her presence and they are nice to her, but they don’t give her the love she needs. She is like a child must be: a bit careless, and thinking on your own way of life, etc. But then, one Saturday in spring, Cholly rapes Pecola. He rapes her a second time soon afterward. Pecola then became pregnant with her father's child. Miserable and desperate, Pecola believes more than ever that blue eyes would change her life. She goes to a paedophilic fortune-teller named to ask for blue eyes. He decides that he can use her for a small task, and so he uses an unwitting Pecola to kill a dog that he hates. She completes the task, which she believes will be like a transformative spell. The dog dies in a gruesome manner, and Pecola runs away in terror. The next time we ‘see’ Pecola, she's lost her mind. She spends all of her time talking to a new "friend"; he/she is an imaginary friend who is now the only person with whom Pecola speaks. The topic of conversation is most frequently the blueness of Pecola's eyes. Pecola spends the rest of her life as a madwoman. My verdict This book is the most beautiful, English book, I’ve ever read. It was very difficult to read but the things I understand, I think wonderful. Toni Morrison has a way of write, which is very interesting, because it’s very poetic on a childish way. It is as if it’s very normal that you become pregnant of your own father, you become crazy, you can be so obsessed of blue eyes, only because you think you become more beautiful, and nobody ever say something mean to you, you didn’t like, that’s so ‘hard’ and mean, but then you realize that, “this can be true, this can be happening in this world.” Once again: I like this book very much!