![]() Through Pecola, Morrison exposes the power and cruelty of white, middle-class American definitions of beauty. The Bluest Eye, Morrison’s first novel, focuses on Pecola Breedlove, a lonely, young black girl living in Ohio in the late 1940s. CliffsNotes on The Bluest Eye & Sula covers two of Toni Morrison’s unforgettable novels. Summary : The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. ‘What a force her thoughts have been and how grateful we must be that they were offered to us in this extremely challenging age’ Alice Walker, Guardian BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction Sula (MAXNotes Literature Guides) Cast as a witch by the people who resent her strength, Sula is a woman of uncompromising power, a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down. Sula is a story of fear – the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. ![]() A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter’ New York Times As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood.
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