Essays about: "The Bluest Eye"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 17 essays containing the words The Bluest Eye.

  1. 11. How Narrative Devices Convey the Theme of Love in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Linnea Lindberg; [2015]
    Keywords : Toni Morrison; The Bluest Eye; Pecola Breedlove; theme; love; narrative device; narrator; narration;

    Abstract : This essay focuses on the way in which three narrative devices expand upon three types of love depicted in Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye. The three narrative devices examined in this essay are narrator, paratext and the irony of the Breedlove family name. READ MORE

  3. 12. Resistance of Female Stereotypes in The Bluest Eye  : Destroying Images of Black Womanhood and Motherhood

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Fardosa Abdalla; [2014]
    Keywords : African-American criticism; resistance; stereotypes; archetypes; images; womanhood; motherhood; Mammy; Matriarch; Morrison; The Bluest Eye;

    Abstract : Stereotypes and myths are created by media to simplify and mystify reality. The two are used to form negative stereotypical images that are used as tools of social oppression in today’s white patriarchy. READ MORE

  4. 13. Racism Through a Child’s Eyes : A Postcolonial and Didactic Analysis of The Bluest Eye and To Kill a Mockingbird

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Maria Lydevik; [2014]
    Keywords : Child’s point of view; otherness; teaching; race; stereotype;

    Abstract : In this essay, I will analyse two main characters in The Bluest Eye and To Kill a Mockingbird based on their perspective on race. My main focus is on the use of a child’s point of view as a narrative technique. READ MORE

  5. 14. The Faces of Oppression : In Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Nathalie Starke; [2014]
    Keywords : English; Literature; Feminist; Gender; African American; Theory;

    Abstract : This essay examines the novels Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison with feminist and African Amerian theory. The focus is on opppression and I study the men's roles and functions, whether the male characters follow social structures, if patriarchy is something noticeable and how this affect the female characters. READ MORE

  6. 15. Why Read Fiction in the English Language Classroom? : Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

    University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Kristina Nylin; [2012]
    Keywords : Literacy; Language learning; Reading; Didactics; Gy11; African American; Mother-daughter relationships.;

    Abstract : The essay makes a case for the use of the Nobel Prize-winning (1993) author Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye (1970) in the English language classroom. The essay argues that the novel is an excellent reading choice and to what is appropriate according to the learning goals stated in Gy11's course syllabus English 6. READ MORE