Sara's+Connection+(Bluest+Eye)

//The Bluest Eye// shows the feeling of need that black children have to be like white children. Marketed in America were mainly blond haired, blue eyed people, and if not blond, they were at least white. The Andy Warhol picture depicts exactly the marketable American woman. Pecola, and her two friends, desperately would love to look like this Marilyn Monroe character, but cannot. They are taught to want to look like them, and taught to hate how they, themselves, look and always will look. Even marketable candies show these kids that blue eyes is the only way to have eyes. The second painting is by an African American artist, and to me, it looked exactly like a blue eye, which I thought was interesting.

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