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Some Views Got From The

Bluest Eye

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Some Views Got From The Bluest Eye

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Discrimation agsinst the black

Almost none of us, whether old or young, will ever feel surprised when hearing that the black have been living under discrimination. From TV and other media, it is easy for us to have a look at the black’s tragic life. Especially in the past, the black did not have equal rights in politics, and met unfair treat in life. They were treated no better than animals. What’s more, they were even treated as slaves, bought and sold from a buyer to another seller, and from home to a place far away. Simarlar discription of this kind of phenomenon is also common in many other literature works, such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and so on.The tragic life of the black comes into our eyes soon during reading these books, leading us thinking over their misery.

And The Bluest Eye shows the discrimination of the black and their tragic life through discription of different characters’ misfortune in different periods, such as the youth of Cholly and Mrs Breedlove and the time when Pecola stayed with my sister and me(the narrator). Though it seems a little illogical without a main point or a main character, in fact all their misfortune are of the same theme. All their misfortune was causesd by discrimination, and made up the whole story. It was true that most of time, the balck still lived together with their blackfellows. And it seemed that they should have lived easily and happily, far away from the disturbance of the white. However, things do not turn out the way you want, their life still went under discrimination, and the discrimination filled everywhere in their life. And they even began to complain about the fact that they are black instead of hating the white. They even thought discrimination was common and they deserved it. Though the black lived together with the white in the same world, they seemed to live in two totally diffferentl evels.

The balck are in the low, and the white in the high.

All the balck, no matter old or young, or how much they have experienced, begin to hate the white and almost everything related to them. However, they were still in another contradition. The balck hate the white, but still admire their privilege and what they possess. For example, all the balck girls wish to have blue eyes of white girls.

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Symbolism of blue eyes:

It is true that black girls hate white girls, for example, the narrator even wants to beat or even killl all the white girls every time she sees them, and she destroys all her dolls just because they look like white girls. However, black girls still admire what white girls possess, for example, the blue eyes, and every black girl wishes to have blue eyes eagerly.

However, in my opinion, the blue eyes is only a symbol. It stands for all the privilege that white people own over black people. It does not mean that black people are greedy or in want of something beyond expectation. It proves that black people only want equal rights, in politics, and at least in living on the same world. However, blue eyes were born to white girls, but not black girls. And blue eyes can not be installed to black girls. So it also implies that the black have too much difficulity in achieving their goal to gain equal rights as the white. And it seemed that they were destined to live under discrimination, and have no way to rebell.

The narrator, as a girl of about 7 or 8 years old, has not so much experience of being bullied by white people. However, she seemed born to know that black people were discriminated by white people, black people should hate white people, white people and black people can not become friends, and white people are devils who should be killed. In my opinion, it is because discrinimation against the black has been a common phenomenon, and maybe a law which is deep rooted in everyone’s mind. It is really a pity for black people to have such awareness that they were born to be discriminationed, and more a pity for white people to think they have such