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This photograph taken by August Sander reminds me of //The Bluest Eye//. Not only is this a photo of an eye, it cleary has a deeper meaning, just like how blue eyes symbolize something more then a physical trait in the book. In the pupil, an image of a window is revealed. The window is the brightest part of the whole photograph and it is placed in the center. Still, the "window" is the smallest illistration in the piece. It draws the viewer into the eye.

I feel that Pecola thinks blue eyes are beautiful. She sees white and middle-upper class people with these eyes and she thinks these eyes bring them a sort of happiness. Pecola gets the blue eyes but she loses wisdom; she is blind to everything but the blue eyes.

This idea of the "window" in this photograph makes me think of something that has to do with finding a way out of the situation at hand and Pecola will do anything in and out of her power to be a certain way. Blue eyes are her window but blue eyes are the only thing she can see. The "window" is the only thing in her pupil; it is the only thing that matters.