The Power of The Bluest Eye :: Bluest Eye Essays

The Power of The Bluest nerve centre   America has been described by various terms such(prenominal) as melting pot and tossed salad, but what these terms ar trying to press out is that America is a country of great diversity. The literature of this country reflects its tribe in its diversity of genres, themes, spoken communication, and voices. One of these voices is Toni Morrison, an author who knows and appreciates the power of language, and uses it. In her Nobel loot acceptance speech she states, The vitality of language lies in its ability to draft the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. The vitality of language of which Morrison speaks, may precise well be the soul of the American novel, or at the very least, the soul of Morrisons novels, such as Sula, Beloved, and The Bluest Eye.   In The Bluest Eye, Morrison uses her ability with language to take her readers into the black conjunction in Lorraine, Ohio, and into t he various levels of that society. She utilizes several points of view, both first person and trinity person omniscient, and universal themes such as love, hate, hope, despair, fear, courage, ugliness, and beauty to bring her characters and their struggles to life. The very universality of her themes provides a common point of contact that allows most readers to ensure in these concourse something of themselves or their life experience. For example, she shows a mothers love for a child when in the night, the mothers hand adjusted the quilt, and rested a heartbeat on my forehead (14). This simple gesture conveys so much, and is familiar to many.   Morrisons puissant language lends depth and detail to every scene. She shows the pain and bewilderment of Claudia, Frieda, and Pecola all over the blue-eyed blond ideal of beauty that is even perpetuated by their parents when they are given dolls that fit this mold. She brings to life the upper class colored people w ho were neat and quiet and who looked down on niggers who were dirty and loud (71), with language that flows like molasses on a warm day. They come from Mobile, Aiken. From Newport News. From Marietta. From Merdian. And the sound of these places in their mouths make you think of love (67).