American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1703 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*The Bluest Eye*
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The idea
Published in nineteen seventy and set in her own Lorain, the novel follows a young Black girl who prays for blue eyes. The witness says Morrison weaves her narrative around a girl who, in the void of her social persona, constructs a beautiful and poisonous fiction.
In practice
A girl praying to be seen differently.
Where people slip
The board asks this as her first novel.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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