The Bluest Eye Teacher Guide

The Bluest Eye Teacher Guide
Author: Novel Units, Inc. Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2001
Genre: Books and reading
ISBN: 9781581307085

Activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2007-05-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307278441

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Author: Christopher Hubert
Publisher: Research & Education Assoc.
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780878910083

Provides a study guide, synopsis, and analysis of Toni Morrison's novel, "The Bluest Eye," and contains topics for papers and reports, and study questions.

A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410335526

A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Beloved

Beloved
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2006-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307264882

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

Toni Morrison Box Set

Toni Morrison Box Set
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 905
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593082230

A box set of Toni Morrison's principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye (her first novel), Beloved (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Song of Solomon (National Book Critics Award winner). Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Beloved transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. This spellbinding novel tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who escapes to Ohio, but eighteen years later is still not free. In The New York Times bestselling novel, The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty and yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes, that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. With Song of Solomon, Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as she follows Milkman Dead from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, introducing an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. This beautifully designed slipcase will make the perfect holiday and perennial gift.

The Lottery Rose

The Lottery Rose
Author: Irene Hunt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534478477

A young victim of child abuse gradually overcomes his fears and suspicions when placed in a home with other boys.

Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)

Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2012-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1616203080

"Filled with lively humor, compassion, and intimacy." —Alice Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy." With that opening sentence we enter the childhood world of one of the most appealing young heroines in contemporary fiction. Her courage, her humor, and her wisdom are unforgettable as she tells her own story with stunning honesty and insight. An Oprah Book Club selection, this powerful novel has become an American classic. Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction.

Native Son

Native Son
Author: Richard A. Wright
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1998-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780060929800

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.