The Bluest Eye
Sep. 12th, 2005 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishI read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison over the weekend. What a disturbing, yet moving book. The large print belies the beautiful language, but this is not a happy tale.
Have we come far since the time depicted in this book? I don't know. I'm vaguely repulsed by the thought that the color of my own eyes would be someone's most fervent wish. I certainly don't find them anything amazing, considering the light behind them to be more far important than the color. But for this young girl, blue eyes stood for not being ugly, a beautiful, well-stocked kitchen, a mother who seemed to care more for the family with eyes of that color, whom she worked for, for people loving you because of what you looked like.
I picked this one up at a garage sale with the intention of Bookcrossing it. However, it's fairly mature and I don't really want to leave this around where kids could pick it up, even though it's about kids. I wouldn't want any parents to misunderstand. Then again, this seems to be a novel used in literature classes; I'm not sure this would have made any reading list for students when I was one, but then I live in stodgy Orange County. Would anyone like to read this or have a suggestion as to where to leave it?
Have we come far since the time depicted in this book? I don't know. I'm vaguely repulsed by the thought that the color of my own eyes would be someone's most fervent wish. I certainly don't find them anything amazing, considering the light behind them to be more far important than the color. But for this young girl, blue eyes stood for not being ugly, a beautiful, well-stocked kitchen, a mother who seemed to care more for the family with eyes of that color, whom she worked for, for people loving you because of what you looked like.
I picked this one up at a garage sale with the intention of Bookcrossing it. However, it's fairly mature and I don't really want to leave this around where kids could pick it up, even though it's about kids. I wouldn't want any parents to misunderstand. Then again, this seems to be a novel used in literature classes; I'm not sure this would have made any reading list for students when I was one, but then I live in stodgy Orange County. Would anyone like to read this or have a suggestion as to where to leave it?
