"Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her." (Back Cover) Excerpts Excerpt from The Bluest Eye Essays and Articles= studentessay 'The Bluest Eye': notes on history, community, and black female subjectivity -Jane Kuenz Periodizing Toni Morrison's work from 'The Bluest Eye' to 'Jazz': the importance of 'Tar Baby' - Malin Walther Pereira Insignificant Monkeys: Preaching Black English in Faulkner's The Sound and the Furyand                 Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Beloved - William Dahill-Baue Toni Morrison and the Burden of the Passing Narrative - Juda Bennett The politics of abuse: the traumatized child in Toni Morrison and Marguerite Duras - Laurie Vickroy The fourth face: the image of God in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye - Allen Alexander, African American Review The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye - Cat Moses, African American Review Revolutionary Suicide in Toni Morrison's Fiction - Katy Ryan, African American Review Genealogy of Rejection in Morrison's TheBluest Eye - Joy Wills Synopsisand analysis of The Bluest Eye - James Blind Analysis of The Bluest Eye - Kristin Mellage Miscellaneous Oprah's Book Club page for The Bluest Eye - Oprah.com Toni Morrison on why everyone should read The Bluest Eye -Oprah.com Randomhouse The Bluest Eye site NYTimes Book Review Discussion of The Bluest Eye - Wired for Books Topics on The Bluest Eye - Dr. Andrade Study Questions for The Bluest Eye - Cary Henson Book Notes on The Bluest Eye - Meredith Kramer Synopsisof The Bluest Eye - The Gale Group to Toni Morrison Site copyright ©1996-2006 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved. Created by Anniina Jokinenon May 21, 1997. Last updated on May 31, 2006. Toni, Morrison, Paradise, interview, interviews, Toni Morrison, books, links, Beloved, Jazz, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Bluest Eye, Nobel Prize, author, African, American, Woman, Women, Writers, African American, African-American, Authors, writer, author, novelist, novel, novels, book, books, writing, Africa, Black, History, Slavery, contemporary, literature, Love, Grace, Nobel, Prize, Black Authors, Black History, Black History Month, African-American, African American, Africa, Essays, Literature, Books, fiction, literary, Oprah, Book Club, book, Oprah's Book Club, reading, group, reasing group