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A review by aveincobalt
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
1.0
No one warned me that 40 pages from the end of this Classic Book a father would rape his 11 year old daughter. This is written from his point of view. At the end of a chapter that tells his history in an obvious attempt to humanize him.
The next chapter is from the POV of a pedophile who interacts with the daughter while she is pregnant and then writes a multi page letter to God talking about what he has done to girls before and saying how much restraint he had to not touch her.
The town gossips blame the literal child because obviously she had to do something to encourage her father to do this to her. When we finally do see things from her POV she has lost both the baby and her mind.
This is disgusting. And completely unnecessary. She wants The Bluest Eyes because blue eyes are pretty so maybe if she has blue eyes she will be and feel pretty. The rest of the novel was doing a great job of explaining the circumstances that would cause someone to want to be something they are not without resorting to explicit child rape.
The next chapter is from the POV of a pedophile who interacts with the daughter while she is pregnant and then writes a multi page letter to God talking about what he has done to girls before and saying how much restraint he had to not touch her.
The town gossips blame the literal child because obviously she had to do something to encourage her father to do this to her. When we finally do see things from her POV she has lost both the baby and her mind.
This is disgusting. And completely unnecessary. She wants The Bluest Eyes because blue eyes are pretty so maybe if she has blue eyes she will be and feel pretty. The rest of the novel was doing a great job of explaining the circumstances that would cause someone to want to be something they are not without resorting to explicit child rape.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Incest, and Child abuse
Moderate: Racism and Animal death