The Bluest Eye
Ranked #14 in African American, Ranked #15 in Black Author — see more rankings.
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change- in painful, devastating ways.
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Rankings by Category
The Bluest Eye is ranked in the following categories:
- #23 in 10th Grade
- #100 in 11th Grade
- #22 in 15-Year-Old
- #64 in African
- #64 in African American History
- #71 in American Literature
- #51 in Automotive
- #44 in Automotive Engineering
- #44 in Beauty
- #64 in Business Communication
- #99 in Class
- #84 in Controversial
- #59 in Identity
- #35 in Nobel
- #25 in Oprah
- #52 in Racism
- #92 in Trauma
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