Toni Morrison is an acclaimed American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for Literature. Her 1970 novel The Bluest Eye is set in 1941 and centers around Pecola, a young African American girl who believes having blue eyes will make her beautiful and accepted. Pecola develops an inferiority complex due to racism and abuse at home. The novel explores controversial topics like racism, incest, and child abuse through Pecola's desire for blue eyes as an escape from her troubled life and society's prejudice against her dark skin.

2. The index
• About the author
• About the book
• Personal opinion

3. Toni Morrison (February, 18 of 1931 – 87 years old)
• Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American
novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University.
• Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988
for Beloved. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name (starring Oprah
Winfrey and Danny Glover) in 1998. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1993. In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected
her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for
achievement in the humanities. She was honored with the 1996 National Book
Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Morrison
wrote the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, first performed in 2005. On
May 29, 2012, President Barack Obama presented Morrison with the Presidential
Medal of Freedom. In 2016, she received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for
Achievement in American Fiction.

5. The Great Depression, historical time started in 1929, and finished with the World
War II, begins after a major fall in stock prices (stock Exchange), was a terrible
monetary moment for all world. Even Brazil was affected, once couldn’t sell
cofee for United States that was the bigger buyer of the product in that time.
The literary production of that time was traced by discouragement, and most
part of the protagonists of the stories created by authors who lived in that time
have the inferior complex how one main characteristic. Also, we can notice the
change for the worker to inner cities in looking for job, and social prejudice
suffered by them as mark of this kind of literary work produced in that moment in
history.

6. • The Bluest Eye was written byToni Morrison in 1970. She was a single
mother of two sons and taught at Howard University in that times.The novel
is set in 1941, and centers aroud the life of na African-American girl named
Pecola, who grows up during the years following the Great Depression, in
Lorain, Ohio.
• ‘Cause a racism question, so much present in this work, her dark skin, and
her mannerisms, Pecola is consistently regarded as an ugly person. Due this,
she develops na inferiority complex, wich fuels her desire for blue eyes,
which she equates with whitness. This bookWorks with controversial topics,
as like incest, racismo, and child abuse.

7. The book
• The Bluest Eye opens in the fall of 1941, after the Great Depression, in Lorain,
Ohio. Claudia, a girl who was 19 years old, and her sister Fried, who was only 10
years old, live with their parentes in a old, cold, and green house. What they don`t
have in Money, they are comprensed in love. The McTeers Family decide to take in
a boarder, named Mr. Henry. At the same time, they also take in the young Pecola
Breedlove, whose father recently hit her mother and tried to burn down the
Family’s home. Pecola is a quiet awkward girl who loves Shirley Temple, believing
that whiteness is beautiful and that her own blackness is inherently ugly.

8. • Pecola’s home life is complicated. Her father, Cholly, has problems with
alcohol and her parentes fight constantly. Pecola begins to think that would
happen if she was prettier, her parentes would be nicer with each other and to
her. Since, Pecola equates beauty with whitness, she begins to pray for blue
eyes in order to change the way she sees the world as well as the way she is
seen by others.
• Above Pecola’s house live three whores, Miss Marie, Poland, and China. These
women use men for money, curse, spit, fun, laugh, and others personal
interests. They are also genuinely kind to Pecola and tell her Stories about
love, sex, and money.

9. • The are a huge number of characters in this story, as follow: Pecola
Breedlove, Claudia MacTeer, Frieda Mcteer, Chally Breedlove, Pauline “Polly”
Breedlove, Sam Bredlove, Auntie Simmy, Samson Fuller, The Fishers,
Geraldine, Louis Junior, Maginot Line, Rosemary Villanucci, Mr. Yacobowski,
Maureen Peal, Elihue MicahWithcomb.
• The mainly intention of the author was to make the readers remember how
the racism is a hurt feel. Acctualy, it’s really hurt the feels of others, and the
relation with the dark color skin meaning a bad thing. And the possibility to
have blue eyes can “repair” the social problems and social prejudices that a
dark skin brings. For Pecola, the desire for blue eyes is a way to scape from
this prejudice and her family problems.