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The Bluest Eye **//Toni Morrison//**

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//**(Left) Jackson Pollock __Bird__** **(1938)** **Oil on Canvas (Right) Skrebneski editorial**//



Pretty eyes. Pretty blue eyes. Big blue pretty eyes. Run, Jip, run. Jip runs, Alice runs. Alice has blue eyes. Jerry has blue eyes. Jerry runs. Alice runs. They run With their blue eyes. Four blue eyes. Four pretty Blue eyes. Blue-sky eyes. Blue like Mrs. Forrest’s Blue blouse eyes. Morning-glory-blue-eyes. Alice-and Jerry-blue-storybook-eyes. P. 46 __//The Bluest Eye//__ **Toni Morrison**

Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that happen would take a long, long time. Throw, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people. p. 47 __//The Bluest Eye//__ **Toni Morrison**

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