The End.

I believe that the main reason Toni Morrison wrote The Bluest Eye was to portray all the problems that Afro-Americans had to face. Not only did they had a hard time fitting into society but there self esteem was being affected in a negative way. Toni Morrison demonstrates this through Pecola: the girl who dreamt for blue eyes.

From the beginning of the novel I knew that Toni Morrison was not planning on giving us a happy ending. Still I was shocked when I finally closed the book. Cholly rapes Pecola twice. Isn’t one time more than enough? I take that back. No one should every have the misfortune to go through what Pecola experienced. Sammy runs away. I completely understand him and support him in a way. Who would want to make part of such family? On the other hand his running away was kind of predictable since from the beginning of the book we knew Sammy as the boy who ran away. Ms.Breedlove and Pecola are left alone. Oh, wait. They are not completely alone. It turns out Pecola is pregnant! Could things get any more confusing?

That was clearly a rhetorical question since things for Pecola just get worse. Ms.Breedlove decides to go in denial and does not believe Pecola. I was not surprised at her reaction because Ms.Breedlove never demonstrated to be a caring mother. On the contrary she is constantly blaming Pecola´s appearances for all the bad things that happen to her. Pecola asks a dream reader for blue eyes, he then writes to God and it turns out that God could not give her blue eyes and “loved her” (182).  Yet after this event, Pecola is convinced that she has blue eyes. Probably making her think that things in life were going to improve for her. But since she clearly did not have blue eyes bad things continue to happen.
When Claudia and Frieda learn that Pecola is pregnant they decide to go plant their money and seeds in order to protect the baby for any harm. But guess what. Neither the seeds bloomed nor the baby lived.

In my opinion all of these events lead her to become a little insane. She starts talking to an imaginary friend who I really do not understand who she is referring too. Her worries now shifted to the part that she does not has the bluest eye. But still believes that nobody wants to talk to her or look her at her eyes because everyone envies her.

We might think that the biggest issue of the book was the rape, but Pecola´s big problem was her inability to have blue eyes. For her being pregnant was just an obstacle she had to overpass.

I found this video and I believe that what girls like Pecola suffered during that time is what girls now a day are passing through: anorexia.