Welcome to your online discussion of The Bluest Eye!
Together with members of your book group, you’ll be reading The Bluest Eye over the next several weeks. Although you're not required to take notes while you read, it would be wise to keep track of important events and characters for your own clarification. You are, however, expected to participate regularly and thoughtfully in an online discussion of FOUR essential questions.
Here's how it works:
Divide your book into three roughly equal sections. You need to have read and blogged about these sections by the due dates below.
There are two kinds of posts in this discussion: responses and comments.
Responses = direct responses to the essential questions
- Post at least TWO responses for each section of your book (SIX overall).
- You must comment on all of the essential questions over the course of your reading.
- One of your six responses can be a “free-response" post.
Comments = comment on someone else’s posted response or comment
- Post at least THREE comments for each section of your book (NINE overall).
Due dates:
- Post your first set of responses and comments by Thursday, April 14.
- Post your second set of responses and comments by Monday, April 25.
- Post your third set of responses and comments by Tuesday, May 3.
Essential Questions:
- How does the story (setting, characters, plot, etc.) illuminate aspects of African-American culture? Be specific! (Page references are helpful.)
- How does the story (setting, characters, plot, etc.) illuminate aspects of African-American history?
- In what ways does this book refute the notion of the “single story”?
- How does the story (setting, characters, plot, etc.) reflect or illuminate the current state of race relations in our country? Have we made any progress as a society?
** Free-response option: Address another issue/episode/or passage in the book that you find
significant for any reason.
Assessment: To earn maximum credit, post thoughtful responses that are at least a short paragraph in length—and carefully proofread! Do not misspell characters' or authors’ names! Also, be sure to include specific references to the text (either details or short quotations). Page numbers, too, are always helpful.
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DeleteThis first section of the book shows how badly the black were all treated in just the smallest glimpse, For example when you get sick like Claudia did you are expected to keep working unless it's severe and even then sometimes. And then they have a daily job of picking up coal that falls off trains and then whipped being whipped for punishments if you do something wrong. I think this part of the book shows the readers how violent the punishments were and how bad these times were. Now we don’t have nearly as much, no whipping if something is done wrong, and we don't need to pick coal up off the ground that's been left behind but we still do have labor intensive jobs.
ReplyDeleteJacob i agree with you because that is true like you said this shows how badly they where treated and i like how you gave good details.
DeleteHere is another example of how badly the blacks were treated after all of this pain and labor they get to come back to a roach filled home that has old furniture, the conditions of the house aren't great at all. it used to be a store but then was made into a home so some of the walls haven't been finished. This part just add that much more feeling to the first because it just shows clearly that living conditions weren't great, Sadly this hasn't changed though today you can still find many old houses that are just barely staying standing.
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DeleteThis part exposes more of how blacks were treated outside of their job and home, it shows how they were bullied by whites and even abused by whites just because of their skin color, and it also shows how far people went just to hate the blacks, for example the boys cat that kept scratching the black girl. I think the Author also wanted to show what people other than the slave owner and family though of blacks, obviously it was not good, even today things like this happen and blacks are still made fun of and called names and i think it's wrong.
ReplyDeletei agree but i don't think the racism has changed a lot and yes they are called names and bad things still have happened but back then is not the same as it is now and the cat thing is weird
DeleteI find the fact that every single time you do something wrong or just that another person doesn't like you have to be beaten, there are many parts in the book were it shows Claudia expecting to be whipped or hit on page 97 she says “ They beat us up different in the spring ”. It’s interesting how much society has changed over just a century, when you do something wrong do you expect to be whipped?
ReplyDeleteyes i agree and you should not get whipped for some thing bad that you have done but you should also learn from your mistake not in a bad way like if you did some thing bad you should tell your self not to do that and learn not to do it again so that you will not get in trouble.
Deletei find this part strong when Pecola prays to be pretty and that she can have blu eyes and so that people will stop treating her bad and that her family will like her. now these days it is easer for women because we did not treat them that badly that they had to go though some many things just so they would not get bullied.
ReplyDeleteI think it is a strong part also, it think it shows how much people were scared of being themselves so they dream and wanted to be someone else. And i totally agree that things have changed a lot for women in the 21 century and it has been in a great way.
Deletei am adding to my first one. (so the world will see her differently and so she will be able to see the world differently.)
ReplyDeletewhen Junior lures Pecola into his house. He picks up his mother Geraldine's cat and throws it in Pecola's face, scratching her badly. When Geraldine comes home, Junior blames Pecola for the cat's death. this was wierd because he did this just because of her color and that is not right and its not right how she got in trouble instead of the other kid. I could not think of anything in our time because nobody does that.
ReplyDeleteThis one was weird, It is hard to find things that relate to this today. I completely agree that it was wrong to do that, no matter who the person is. I don't think there is much more to add on to this part because it was very unusual.
DeleteI found the fact that her father got pecola pregnant disturbing, its her father. but other than that fact her mother beat her and quite a bit. And it was definitely against pecola's will so she could not help it at all. Around the 21 century that is a crime and has been for some time and i don't think it will change for a while
ReplyDeleteThe book keeps referring back to blue eyes, hence the name of the book "the bluest eye". I think that the bluest eye is the best and she wants blue eyes. Because black and whites are not equal and she just wants to fill her potential and be the best she can. Like a competition.
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