Toni Morrison
...incorporates various techniques in The Bluest Eye, such as her use of metaphors, the ironic use of names and the visual images that she uses.
I. Background information on Toni Morrison
A. Where she was born.
B. Where she attend college
C. Why she changed her name
D. When she got married
II. The Bluest Eye
A. Summary of The Bluest Eye
B. What is a theme?
1. The main theme of The Bluest Eye.
C. What is a Plot?
1. What is the plot of The Bluest Eye?
D. How Toni Morrison plays with the names in The Bluest Eye, so they are not what they seem to be.
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1.The significance of Pecola's name
E. What are the two major metaphors used in The Bluest Eye?
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Toni Morrison the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. She was the second of four children to George and Ramah Wofford. Her parents moved to Ohio from the South to escape racism and to find better opportunities in the North.
Lorain was a small industrial town populated with immigrant Europeans, Mexicans and Southern blacks who lived next door to each other. Chloe attended an integrated school. In the first grade she was the only black student in her class and the only one who could read.
Chloe attended the prestigious Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in English with a minor in classics. Since many people could not pronounce her name correctly she changed it to Toni, a shortened version of her middle name. Toni Wofford graduated Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. She attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and received a master's degree in 1955.
After graduating, Toni was offered a job at Texas Southern University in Houston where she taught...
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