The+Bluest+Eye

Our Featured Author: Tony Morrison Main Focus: //**The Bluest Eye**

// Featured Artist: Andy Warhol "Shot Orange Marilyn"

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Featured Artist: Alma Thomas

Beautiful Disaster// Jon McLaughlin "and every magazine tells her she's not good enough the pictures that she sees make her cry

she would change everything, everything just ask her"

Excerpt from //The Bluest Eye//

" ' My eyes.' 'What about yours eyes?' 'I want them blue.' Soaphead pursed his lips, and let his tongue stroke a gold inlay. He thought it was at once the most fantastic and most logical petition he had ever received. Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty."

p. 174

"Each pale yellow wrapper has a picture on it. A picture of little Mary Jane, for whom the candy is named. Smiling white face. Blond hair in gentle disarray, blue eyes looking at her out of a world of clean comfort. The eyes are petulant, mischievous. To Pecola they are simply pretty. She eats the candy, and its sweetness is good. To eat the candy is somehow to eat the eyes, eat Mary Jane. Love Mary Jane. Be Mary Jane."

p. 50

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