On Beauty
On beauty
The bluest eye is an immensely sad story. Although readers know the tragic ending from the beginning of the book, the more you read of it, the more sad and helpless you feel. Throughout the whole book, I don¡¯t feel a hint of hope. Racism is so deeply rooted in everybody¡¯s heart of the whole society, not only in the whites, but also in the blacks themselves. This is the reason why it becomes almost impossible to remove racism.
One of the most evident displays of racism shown in this novel is its power of changing people¡¯s views on beauty. Actually, the title reflects people¡¯s standards of beauty. Only the bluest eye is the most beautiful, only the palest skin is acceptable, only the whites are given the right to live in the society. Pecola, a black young girl, leads a miserable life. She is lonely, abused and neglected. She has an unhappy family and receives neither care nor protection from it. Her own father rapes her twice and she becomes pregnant.......
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