The Bluest Eye

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The Bluest Eye (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)

The Novel

The events in The Bluest Eye are seen from the point of view of Claudia MacTeer. As the novel begins, Claudia is looking back at the year when she was nine and when her friend Pecola Breedlove, then eleven, became pregnant, having been raped by her own father, Cholly Breedlove. In the summer of 1941, Claudia and her sister, Frieda, planted marigold seeds in the childish belief that if the marigolds survived, so would Pecola’s baby. Even as the novel opens, however, the reader knows that the seeds never germinated and that the baby died. Years later, it is...

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• Toni Morrison (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Toni Morrison (Long Fiction)
• Toni Morrison (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Toni Morrison (Identities and Issues)

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• - For teachers, the The Bluest Eye Lesson Plan.
• - The Bluest Eye summary and study guide in the eNotes.