The Power of The Bluest Eye :: Bluest Eye Essays

The Power of The Bluest Eye   America has been described by miscellaneous basis such as melting pot and tossed salad, but what these terms are trying to convey is that America is a country of enceinte diversity. The literature of this country reflects its population in its diversity of genres, themes, wrangle, and voices. One of these voices is Toni Morrison, an actor who knows and appreciates the power of speech, and uses it. In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech she states, The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. The vitality of language of which Morrison speaks, whitethorn very well be the soul of the American novel, or at the very least, the soul of Morrisons novels, such as Sula, Beloved, and The Bluest Eye.   In The Bluest Eye, Morrison uses her ability with language to take her readers into the black community in Lorraine, Ohio, and into the various levels of that society. She utilizes several orients of view, two first person and third person omniscient, and universal themes such as love, hate, hope, despair, fear, courage, ugliness, and sweetie to bring her characters and their struggles to support. The very universality of her themes provides a common point of contact that allows most readers to see in these people something of themselves or their life experience. For example, she shows a mothers love for a child when in the night, the mothers hand set the quilt, and rested a moment on my forehead (14). This simple question conveys so much, and is familiar to many.   Morrisons powerful language lends depth and detail to any scene. She shows the pain and bewilderment of Claudia, Frieda, and Pecola over the blue-eyed blond ideal of beauty that is even perpetuated by their parents when they are given dolls that fit this mold. She brings to life the speeding class colored people who were neat and quiet and who looked down on niggers who were dirty and loud (71), with language that flows like molasses on a untoughened day. They come from Mobile, Aiken. From Newport News. From Marietta. From Merdian. And the sound of these places in their mouths make you think of love (67).