The Bluest Eye incorporated so many themes. The story is about so many things one being race relations in the 1940s. Others include child abuse, bullying, and one that really struck me was the piece on beauty; why and how her entire community can consider a young and innocent girl ugly. Reading the last paragraph of the novel really haunted me. I came to the realization that so many innocent characters must face discrimination, but they had to stay strong and endure the pain. Those characters that couldn’t bear the agony would be destroyed. I came across another insightful blog that focuses on The Bluest Eye. These blogs help me formulate my own blogs and are really helpful to me. book discussion guide
This blog contains important quotes from the book along with brief summaries before the quote is said. I think "The Bluest Eye" is a very good book for teenagers to read. It allows us to understand how cruel humans can be towards each other. The world we live in today is full of discrimination and racism still exists everywhere. To create a better living place, we have to be generous and kind to everyone and treat people with the same respect we would want in return. “We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares. and she let us, and thereby deserved our contempt. We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty, and yawned in the fantasy of our strength."