The Bluest Eye: A Novel

Well .. yeah! This story starts off with a hilarious bang. The sisters (Claudia and Frieda) banter is awesome. Along with Mrs. MacTeer's funny outbursts... Laugh out loud chuckles. The story told from Claudia's perspective is perfect. That's the story I was preparing to read, boy did this book slap me across the face when other stories came to be. The stories told, flipping from one to another, leaves tons of loose ends in the book. Plenty of stories that have no point in the story. I wish this book could have remained in the story of the little girls. Chollys story was pointless. It added nothing to the story other than maybe adding reasoning to his drunken ways. Polly's story was a little more in line with the general story, but not much. I think it was a mistake to take this book away from the point of view of the children. I'm not a deep reader, so I felt like the ending was just an ending for the sake of an ending. 2.5/5. Second middle of "The Road" in a row!

At the beginning I felt it's somewhat similar to 'To Kill a Mockingbird'--a little girl talking about the end and then going back to tell how it happened. I appreciate that the book is trying to bring to the light that beauty is not just "blue eyes and blonde hair" but overall the plot and the story-telling fell through somewhere in the middle of the book.

This book has no sense of meaning! It is like saying all white are mean toward Africans. Look at Pecola, she's ruined! How does she even find the card of Soaphead Church card anyway!? If she didn't find the card then she would not go crazy. What kind of parents does she have anyway! Why can't she just run away from her parents? It is better then just staying with them anyway! How about if a young innocent child was reading this?! it would ruin their pure mind