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The Pain of Wanting to be Beautiful Starlight star bright declare me good-looking tonight. So many young girls gaze into the stars need that they could be beautiful so they would be received at school, as well as loved and acknowledged more. Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye is no different than any some early(a) low girl. She too wants to be beautiful. America has set the standards that to be beautiful one must have blue eyes, blonde hair, and flannel skin according to Wilfred D. Samuels Toni Morrison (10). This perception of beauty leads Pecola to insanity beca drill good as society can non accept a little grotesque relentless girl neither can she. Children will evermore be children and the playground will always be a place where they tease and taunt one another. Pecola is unlike the other children; she does not participate in the teasing, she is the brunt of all the criticism because she is not only black but ugly too. On the other hand, there is Maureen Peal. Maureen is not lily-white but is light- skinned therefore, current by everyone; the black boys didnt trip her; the white boys didnt stone her, white girls didnt suck their teeth [at her and] the black girls stepped aside when she wanted to use the sink?(Morrison 62). Everyone was nice to Maureen regardless of their race and her own.

One twenty-four hour period Pecolas dream of acceptance is granted when Maureen rescues her from the taunting of the boys on the playground. During their short-run superficial friendship Maureen does not fail to pane come on that Pecola looks like a movie character that hates her mother because she is black and ugly(Morrison 57). Karen Carmean in her book Toni Morrisons World of Fiction makes the point that Maureen has succumbed to the traditional white associations of darkness with ugliness(Carmean 21). This means that Maureen has accepted the American standards of to be black is to be ugly. Maureens true discernment for being Pecolas friend is revealed when Pecola does not give in... If you want to wee-wee a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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