- foster care, Dick and Jane, flashback, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her. When someone finally did, it was her father, drunk. He raped her. Soon she would bear his child...
- Sexual violence
- Harm to children
- Bleak ending
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- Author
- Toni Morrison
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 181
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Chatto & Windus, Random House Audio
- Editions
- 63
- Language
- tur, Portuguese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780671823238
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Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters. Among her best known novels are *The Bluest Eye*, *Song of Solomon*, and *Beloved*. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
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