The novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison discusses the tragic conditions of Blacks in a racist America. It happened in the early 1940 in Lorain, Ohio, African Americans were discriminated by Americans and we can see the reality of African American life at the time. There are three main characters in the novel. Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, Claudia Mac Teer, who is the first-person narrator, and her sister – Frieda Mac Teer.

The Bluest Eye tells a dismissed and trivialized life of Pecola Breedlove, she is a young and lonely Black girl who rejects racism from society by her family and friends. She rejects her own race, she hated the color of the skin and eyes. She is very dark, and the darkness of her reveals that she is inferior in other people's eyes, her skin makes her even uglier. Pecola's classmates insult her black skin by chanting. She comes to stay with Claudia's family because her family had fallen apart. Her own father sexually molests her more than once he impregnates her. Unfortunately, the baby is miscarried. When she tells her mother about this, her mother doesn't believe her. Because of these tragic experiences, she prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that she will be different. In addition, she would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting if she got bluest eyes. Her classmates, friends and other people can gain acceptance from her race and people would look at her. These are her desires to become true, hope she would be beautiful and change to something different.

I enjoy this novel so much, I would image myself as Pecola Breedlove to have those experiences that she did. I appraise how the author is trying to explain the tragic life of a Black girl who has to live in a society where her enemies are both White and Black. The title of the novel is to get the readers to know how much value is placed on blue-eyed little girl. The author uses the first person narrator - Claudia to recall entire story. I like the novel because the author uses the beauty of language to describe Pecola's exercise. In addition, we can see how African Americans lived in a racist and poor society at the time, and they in that situation usually desired something. I dislike the novel because it is a little boring and long. Anyway, this novel is a great because it got me to experience Pecola's misread life and her hopes.