Evil of Fulfillment in Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye :: Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye

Evil of Fulfillment   The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, tells the niggardly story of Pecola, a young colored girl, as she struggles to attain beauty, desperately praying for blue eyes. Depicting the fallacies in the storybook family, Morrison weaves the histories of the many colored town kin group into the true definition of a family. Through intense metaphor and emotion, the ugliness of racial tension overcomes the look to for beauty and in turn the search for love. Pecola, a twelve year old from a broken home, is inaugural introduced when she is sent to live with Claudia (the narrator) and her family. Her father, Cholly Breedlove, a drunk, has burnt down the familys home and is present(a)ly in jail. Here we see Pecolas want for beauty and her obsession with Shirley tabernacle and blonde haired, blue-eyed baby dolls as a common hope of young black females. This want for beauty is really a animated for love, the love and adoration they see attri anded to the living do lls. I wanted to discover what eluded me the secret of the dissembling they weaved on others. What made people look at them and say Awwwww, but not for me? The eye slide of black women as they passed them on the street, and the genitive gentleness of their touch as they handled them (15). The children, so used to being crush or whipped, have memories only of this treatment. They have never felt the warmness or love that they believe the white children receive. This ache turns them to believe that it is because of their color, their nighted skin, dark eyes, and woolly hair, that they are not seen as being beautiful, and from these thoughts they bewilder to hate the beauty of the white children. Living in fear of her parents, Pecola becomes retr exemplify and learns as many of the other children to deal with the pain. Mamas song left me with the conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet (18). An undertone of sexual fantasies and discovery is present througho ut the novel, as many of the characters have been products of loveless relationships. The men peculiarly seek passion in the young girls, leading eventually to the skirmish between Pecola and Cholly, during which he rapes and impregnates her still developing body. It is after this immoral act that Pecola seeks Soaphead Church for the answer to her prayers.