Profesor

Name: Corredera, Maria José
ASSIGNMENT 1
The Bluest Eye
By Toni Morrison

Answers
1-Why is toni Morrison considered a confrontational author?
Morrison is considered a confrontational author because she challenges us to rethink about our moral values. In the novel, the author confrontsdifficult issues, for example, racial discrimination.
The American novelist, Morrison, describes and analyses pecola as a symbol of black American women, this is connected with the context of American history.
2-What influences her works?
Music and literature influence on Morrison's work.
The author employs African and Western literary tradition on her work.
3-What characterises her novel?Morrison writes about American reality such as racism, human conditions, social conventions, those issues characterise her novel. She writes in THE BLUEST EYE about American people´s life and the contrast between whiteness and blackness.
In the story, the character of Pecola is a symbol of black community.
4-what effect does a multiple-perspective narration have on readers?
Toni Morrison usesmultiple perspective narration so that people would have the opportunity to consider alternative interpretation of events.
5-What strategies does Morrison use to begin her stories?
Toni Morrison introduces the novel with an interesting summary of the story to provoke the readers into a full and serious confrontation with the characters and the situation in her book. Introducing in the summary asentences about Pecola having her father´s baby, make the readers to be attracted by Pecola's terrible situation.


6-Refer to the importance of getting to know about ancestors and the African American context.
The importance of getting to know about ancestors and the African American context
Leave the readers know how the narrator was discriminated by white people when she was young.
Morrison'sstory is for her a ´re-memory story’ because it remembers her about slavery which included her ancestors.
7-What is special about THE BLACK BOOK?
The Black Book is a collection of articles newspaper and advertisements about slavery related to African American life. It is told from the point of view of everybody people making the book special and amazing to be read.
'The book claims that dreamsof colored people' 'is a dream for all´.
The dream of no discrimination between black and white people, the dream about a society without racism.
Morrison feels that The Black Book brings her special memories about her past.
8-Think about Toni Morrison´s thesis and relate its topics to the novel you are reading.
According to Morrison´s thesis we often are judge by our appearance rather than byour innate qualities. This is clearly represented in the novel in different instances when Pecola is discriminated by her parents, her classmates basically by the whole white society.
This novel demonstrates perfectly how African American people were treaten in the past by white people.
9-What are the problems Toni Morrison explores in The Bluest Eyes? Make a brief comment of events for each.The problems that Morrison explore in her novel are, RACISM,HATRED,LUCK OF LOVE,VIOLENCE,SEXISM,POVERTY,INFERIORITY,IGNORANCE,PHYSICAL APPEARANCE,DIFFERENT Social CLASSES.
Racism-Pecola and her family are victim of racism by white society. They are demoralized into social life by white people.
Hatred-Through the novel, it is revealed that not only Pecola but also her parents had a life full ofhatred.
Luck of love-Cholly feels luck of love because his father abandoned him who wanted nothing to do with him.
Pauline and cholly lost the love they had once for each other so now, they are constantly fighting.
Pauline feels alive and happy only when she is working for a reach and white family.
Pecola feels luck of love from her mother too. Pauline remains her all the time what ugly girl...