Choose either one of the twenty-eight items listed on pages twenty-four and twenty-five of your Toni Morrison Study Guide on Blackboard

The Bluest Eye Paper (three-full- pages pages

Directions: Choose either one of the twenty-eight items listed on pages twenty-four and twenty-five of your Toni Morrison Study Guide on Blackboard or one of the five items on The Bluest Eye Discussion Board on Blackboard and develop a three-to-five-page essay on it.Some of the items are related and may naturally be combined.Include a clear thesis statement in your introduction; use the body of your essay to develop your thesis statement with specific examples, details, and evidence from the primary text; and use your conclusion to tell the reader the significance of what you have written.Write intelligently and logically, paying particular attention to analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.Please include a Work Cited(s) page and follow the rules of Edited Written

These The topics you can chose from:

 

Why does Pecola think she is ugly?

Why does Pecola’s father rape her?

What is the role of the whores in the novel?

Who in society decides what is beautiful?

How/Why is Soaphead Church able to get away with molesting little girls?

Why does Soaphead Church prefer little girls to real women?

Why do people believe the fiction that Soaphead Church puts forth?

Henry Washington, like Soaphead Church, has a thing for young, underaged girls?Why?

Mr. Yacobowski, an immigrant himself who probably faced discrimination when he came to American, feels superior to blacks and treats the little black girls shabbily.What is going on here?

Why do black people allow other ethnicities to come into their neighbors to open convenience stores, liquor stores, food stores, and other businesses; and these ethnicities treat their black customers as trash.For example, near North Carolina Central University and North Carolina A & T State University are nonblack-owned businesses that make their wealth from black people mostly, yet the owners of these businesses have very little regard for black people as a whole.This question relates to how Mr. Yacobowski treat little black girls who patronize his business (#9 above).

What does Maureen Peal feel she is special and superior to the other students at school?

Considering its many controversial themes, is The Bluest Eye appropriate reading for high school students. Be most specific and explain in detail.

If you read this novel in high school, how did your teacher handle it, especially the parts dealing with illicit human sexuality?

Have you come across any Pecola Breedloves or Maureen Peals in high school or college?If so, elaborate on how they acted and how you and other students acted toward them.

Related to #14 above, does The Bluest Eye have any relevance today?Elaborate.

How do you like Frieda as a narrator?

Why do human beings need love, affection, and acceptance—things that Pecola Breedlove is sorely lacking, as a rule.

Why are people—in this case, preteens—so cruel to those who do not fit the mold?

Is Breedlove an ironic name?Explain.

How does Pecola’s environments—her home environment, her neighborhood, and her school—affect her personality and self-esteem?

Comment on the sadism in the novel—the scene in which two white men force young Cholly to continue having sexual relations with his female friend until he ejaculates.

Cholly hates his female companion after the episode with the two white men.Why?

There is a biblical story in which a character rapes his half-sister.When the sexual act is finished, this character also hates the female he has had sex with.What story is this?

Discuss the episode in which young Cholly goes in search of his biological father?What is the father’s reaction to seeing his abandoned son?

Discuss the death scene in the novel.Why does death have such a significant place in the lives of black people?

How did you feel after you had finished reading the novel?Why did you feel this way?

Is there a female flavor to the novel?If so, explain.Consider, for example, if black females can relate to the black females in the novel more than females of other ethnicities or males in general?

Are there any special things about the novel you wish to discuss?For example, were there parts you especially liked, didn’t like, or didn’t understand?Be most specific.