Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 204 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

The Bluest Eye

In Tony Morrison's "The Bluest Eye", the beginning of the novel was at first somewhat difficult to follow because of its dialogue but after a while, the meaning behind the sentence at the beginning of each chapter began to make more sense. The character Pecola Breedlove is someone who I think is manipulated into believing that she'd only be beautiful by having blue eyes and I think it's because of the pain her family inflicts from them being a black family during a time of harsh racism. I hope that deeper into the story, the dialogue becomes more open and we get to see why these people are who they are since as of yet, it is difficult to follow when the novel constantly jumps from one character to the next. But overall, I'm enjoying the story in terms of it's diversity of characters and how they each go about in the story.

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