What readers think of The Bluest Eye, plus links to write your own review.

Somehow I’ve never read this book so I jumped at the chance when I was gifted a copy by BookBrowse. The book is described as the story of a young Black girl named Pecola who desperately wants the blond hair and blue eyes she associates with beauty. While Pecola is supposed to be the main character, she barely shows up in the book and is not the book’s narrator (who instead is another child, Claudia). Instead, we’re offered the stories of Pecola’s parents, as well as the parents of Claudia and her sister Frieda - and how their parents’ upbringing, experiences, and parenting styles led to the girls’ view on self beauty.

It’s incredibly sad to think of any child (or adult) doubting their own self worth because of societal values, and specifically something as beautiful as skin color. I can relate on other levels and certainly as a parent of a child who similarly struggles.

Morrison’s writing is lovely and poetic though, for me, challenging. I did not understand the ending and ended up spending a bit of time online learning more. It then all came together but I would have liked to have been able to decipher that myself.

Somehow I’ve never read this book so I jumped at the chance when I saw it on BookBrowse. The book is described as the story of a young Black girl named Pecola who desperately wants the blond hair and blue eyes she associates with beauty. While Pecola is supposed to be the main character, she barely shows up in the book and is not the book’s narrator (who instead is another child, Claudia). Instead, we’re offered the stories of Pecola’s parents, as well as the parents of Claudia and her sister Frieda - and how their parents’ upbringing, experiences, and parenting styles led to the girls’ view on self beauty.

It’s incredibly sad to think of any child (or adult) doubting their own self worth because of societal values, and specifically something as beautiful as skin color. I can relate on other levels and certainly as a parent of a child who similarly struggles.

Morrison’s writing is lovely and poetic though, for me, challenging. I did not understand the ending and ended up spending a bit of time online learning more. It then all came together but I would have liked to have been able to decipher that myself.
All in all, I’m glad to have read The Bluest Eye and appreciate the gifted book.

A deep read, but beautiful with literary metaphor.

This book is not easy to read, but those who persist on will appreciate the beauty of language that the author had woven. It has beautiful use of metaphor and for those who like poetry, they will enjoy it tremendeously.

In all, I found the bluest eye to be a profound book. Toni Morrision packs the book with literary symbolism, which is good, however at times it is somewhat overwhelming. It's the kind of book you have to go back and read, or even research her meaning behinf the symbolism. Young readers, most likely would have a hard time reading this book, because the one needs to do an interpretive anaylisis to thouro0ughly grasp the concept. However the change of narritive sequence,was something I didn't understand at first but later I I realize Morrision used this literary device, to understand the root of Pecola's problem.

I'm 13. I read it for a book report and I liked it because it enlightens you to what went on in the world just 60 years ago. I would definitely reccomend this book

I liked the book, but the flashbacks got kind of confusing. TM is a goodn writer and expresses her point very well. I had to read this book as a project, and as it turned out, I liked it. The main themes of Racism, and Racism within a race are articulated nicely. Me being black I can totally understand TM's point of view. The vulgarness of this book is somewhat deep, and unecessary. Still though, GOOD BOOK.

I am giving this book a four because it was excellent it was written well. I think that if your interested in this type of book (about problems some people go trough) that you should read it for sure. I didnt like the way that Toni talked about pointless things at times but it was very intertaining and i enjoyed it.
~miale 15