Balance In The Bluest Eye

Balance
Unlike most authors, Toni Morrison takes a new spin in terms of structure in the novel “The Bluest Eye”. Taking place just after the great depression the novel is about Pecola Breedlove's dream of having blue eyes in order to feel beautiful. Morrison tries to make the readers understand the struggle of being a black person during this time so in every chapter, there is a different point of view for a different character. Morrison uses Cholly Breedlove and Pauline Breedlove who are the parents of Pecola, they also use Claudia MacTeer who is also a big part of the novel to show this different point of views. Through the different point of views, we understand the story and its characters in different ways.
Morrison chooses not to structure the novel to just the main character’s point of view but instead she structures in such a way, that gives the novel balance. In some of the chapters, characters are distinguished as evil, however, Morrison uses other characters point of views to show the circumstances in which those so-called “evil” characters were put in. Morrison uses these point of views to compare Pecola, Paulina, and Cholly. Sharaf 2
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He is also free in the sense that he can do whatever he pleases no matter how idiotic or threatening it may be. The readers have perceived that from other chapters and their points of view. Cholly is seen burning his own house down, in addition to that he rapes his daughter---twice. Once Cholly’s chapter begins, that's where a lot of things start to make sense. In this chapter, the readers are taught that Cholly was humiliated while losing his virginity because he was black. Equally as bad, his parents abandoned him. The readers at that point would have an understanding of why Cholly is the way he is. These events if not anything else shapes what Cholly character has

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