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?
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i would love to read that
Date: 2005-09-13 04:53 am (UTC)i have always thought i was completely devoid of personality because people didn't get me. i always thought it was because of my eyes.
i started wearing brown and hazel colored contacts and some parts of my life have changed drastically..
i hate the stigma of being too black.
dammit.
but i would love to read that book. and don't get me talking about the OC. i have a friend who lives in san clemente (she calls it tulega. not sure what the hell that means) but she is from the bay area and the county of Orange has thrown her for a loop.
g. did i mention that i would love to read that book? hahahaha!
thanks for the review.
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Date: 2005-09-13 05:09 am (UTC)Re: i would love to read that
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Date: 2005-09-13 05:25 am (UTC)Re: i would love to read that
Date: 2005-09-13 05:46 am (UTC)I'm going to register it at Bookcrossing and you can journal it there too.
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Date: 2005-09-14 05:06 am (UTC)g