The Bluest Eye
Beauty in the American culture has been transformed so many times most people do not even know what real beauty is. Someone can see a woman posing on a billboard in New York City and believe that she is beautiful, but who decided who and what can be beautiful. The way our culture is American people watch television, movies, internet clips constantly. People are fed images of what "beauty" is supposed to be, but this idea of beauty is from the eyes of producers, models, musicians, and actors. It seems to me that only the people who are thought to have beauty are deciding what is beautiful.
In Toni Morrison's book The Bluest Eye there are many instances dealing with the idea of beauty, both through the eyes of some young girls and from an older point of view. For example, Claudia has a problem with white people who she believes to be more beautiful than anyone else. For Christmas one year, Claudia received a blue eyed doll with a skin color opposite of her own. She was given the......
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