The Bluest Eye Final Essay
Write a 2-3 page typed, double-spaced essay in response to the
prompts below.
As we have noticed, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is a novel about childhood—this is signaled to us by the Dick and Jane story on the first page.
As we finish reading this novel, I am reminded that your own childhood and adolescence has been forever imprinted with the mark of Covid-19. You are about to leave childhood and
enter legal adulthood, but I wonder how the world we are currently living in will change you.
Essay Prompt: If childhood is a topic of Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, what is the novel’s theme about the topic of childhood? Remember that a theme is the author’s message about a given topic. Your analysis must be supported with quotes from the text. Show me that you’ve read.
Furthermore, how could you compare/contrast what the novel says about childhood to your own experience of childhood during Covid-19?
