The Bluest Eye Research Paper

Is This Enough?
By living in the 20th century, you would think that a lot of things has changed since the 90s. Especially the level of quality people SHOULD have. It seems as though till this day, people still have “standards” for every culture. After reading “The Bluest Eye”, by Toni Morrison, I realized that basically we’re living in the same world, just a different time.

Toni Morrison creates so many topics you could talk about in this book. The topics I’m going to talk about is “standards” in the 1940s, in Ohio, of white and black women, racism, and rape. They are major topics that, sadly, still exist today.
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear “white girl?” What I would think of is a typical white girl that’s …show more content…
In today's world, Everyone wants to meet the “standards” of their culture. For example, if a black girl is skinny, she may want to become thick because people may tell her she's too skinny. Also because black girls are usually thick and not skinny. Another example, a white girl doesn’t have long blonde hair, so she thinks she doesn't fit in or meet the standards of her race. Now back in the 1940’s, how I described a typical white girl, skinny with blonde hair and blue eyes, was the beauty standards for a white girl. In that time, if you didn't have either or you probably wasn’t as beautiful as people who had it all. Which the character in the book, Pecola, one desire is to have blue eyes. She feels as though having blue eyes will make her beautiful. In …show more content…
It was normal for a black women to have less than a white women. Both in power and wealth. Racism definitely played a major role for the cause of this. If you were black or “colored”, u didn't mean much. But, if you was “white”, you meant so much to the world. Being black was like being the first slice of bread in a loaf. All the bread is the same, but no one cares about the first piece. Because of the color of your skin, you get treated different. So much different to the point where you ask yourself, “is life even worth living?” The worst thing about living in that time is that someone could torture you physically and there's nothing you could do about it. You can tell someone, but it would be like talking to a brick wall. Things have gotten better over the years, but not that much better. Racism still goes on till this day. I don't think we would ever be able to completely erase racism. There's always going to be that one little group of people that's just not with it. In today's world I would say it isn't as bad as how it used to be. It still exists, people are just more respectable with racism. Well some people, not all! I remember one time, I was in a store with my aunt and my cousins. Then, there was this lady that worked there and she was white (I'm African American). So, me and my cousin walked away from my aunt and the lady just kept following us. She didn't say anything

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