The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Author: Toni Morrison

Language: English

Genre: Novel

Publication Date: 1970

Author - Toni Morrison: 

• African American Novelist, Editor and Professor
• Born in Lorain, Ohio
• Born in 1931

Context: 

• Years Following the Great Depression
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Setting:

• Place: Lorain, Ohio
• Time: 1940- 1941

Characters

• Pecola Breedlove
• Protagonist
• 11 year old black girl
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• Pauline ("Polly") Breedlove 
• Cholly Breedlove
• Sam Breedlove
• Aunt Jimmy
• Claudia McTeer
• Frieda McTeer
• Mr. & Ms. McTeer
• Soaphead Church
• Maureen Peal
• Bay Boy, Woodrow Cain, Buddy Wilson, Junie Bug
• China, Poland, Maginot Line,
• The Fishers
• Mr. Yacobowski

Form/ Structure

• Language: Colloquial
• Tone: Lyrical, Mornful, Emittered
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