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Çağla Şahin Sima Antalyali Mehmet Ali Parlar

Çağla Şahin Sima Antalyali Mehmet Ali Parlar. OUTLINE Thesis Statement Toni Morrison Morrison’s Style - Symbols Cultural and Historical Context - Dick and Jane readers ; Shirley Temple and Bojangles . Themes and Characters - Race and Beauty. THESIS STATEMENT.

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Çağla Şahin Sima Antalyali Mehmet Ali Parlar

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  1. Çağla Şahin • Sima Antalyali • Mehmet Ali Parlar

  2. OUTLINE • Thesis Statement • Toni Morrison • Morrison’s Style • - Symbols • Cultural and Historical Context • - Dick and Jane readers; Shirley Temple and Bojangles. • Themes and Characters • - Race and Beauty

  3. THESIS STATEMENT The novel “The Bluest Eye” contains the black people’s acceptance of the idealized beauty of being white and having blue eyes and living in white-green houses and the writer tells the reader about the problems which this internalization of the powerful white culture causes in the lives of black beings by using ironies,comparisons and popular examples.

  4. Born in Lorain, Ohio • Epic themes, stunning dialogue, pretension and larger than life black characters. • In 1993-Nobel prize in Literature • In 1988-Pulitzer prize for fiction • Some significant works: • -Beloved • -Song of Solomon • -The Bluest Eye

  5. SYMBOLS • Marigolds • The House • The Seasons • Bluest Eye(s)

  6. Marigold • - Safety and well-being of Pecola’s baby. • - Constant renewal of nature.

  7. The House • - Not only socio-economic but emotional situations. • - The Breedlove apartment. • - The Macteer house. • Which one would you prefer to live?

  8. The Seasons • - Autumn “Beginnings” • - Winter Sterility • - Spring Deprivation • - Summer Melancholy

  9. The Bluest Eye(s) • -Symbolize the beauty and happiness. • -Saddest eye

  10. Do you have any other ideas about these symbols that you want to impart?

  11. Dick and Jane Readers • Basic readers for primary schools • Written by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp. Published by Scott Foresman. • Started in1930 ’s and continued until late 1960’s. Retrieved 12.05.2010 from http://lh5.ggpht.com/_GC4zlPbEl0o/SgMTWYUIryI/AAAAAAAAEg0/VL_FeisOQBQ/s800/dick_and_jane2.jpg

  12. Dick: a little white boy • Jane: a little white girl • Others: Baby(Sally),Mother, Father,Spot the dog,Puff the cat,and Tim the teddy bear Retrieved 12.05.2010 from http://thesamerowdycrowd.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/dick-and-jane.jpg

  13. White,middle-class American family • Ironic with the reality of time • Male is the dominant. • Artificial illustration of the real life Retrieved 12.05.2010 fromhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/calloohcallay/2861774119/

  14. Positive effects: taught sharing,family interaction, health, safety, helping others and responsibility • Negative effects: Was an idealization so was not about “others”. • Started to have stories about minorities after the Civil Rights Movement

  15. Retrieved 12.05.2010 from http://www.tagnwag.com/images/6265funwithourfriends.gif

  16. 1930’s Retrieved 12.05.2010 from http://www.pan-tex.net/usr/j/julie/30prep2.jpeg

  17. 1940’s Retrieved 12.05.2010 from http://www.alephbet.com/pictures/24875.jpg

  18. 1950’s Retrieved 12.05.2010 from http://www.juliascollectibles.com/DJ50.htm

  19. 1960’s Retrieved 12.05.2010 from http://queenofthemeadowblooms.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/07/dick_jane_mom_cleaning_cropped.jpg

  20. Dick and Jane * The Bluest Eye • There is a big irony. • The life in the Dick and Jane reader versus the life in the novel. • Pecola ‘s desire • The beginning sentences versus the subject in the chapter

  21. HEREISTHEHOUSEITISGREENANDWHITEITHASAREDDOORITISVERYPRETTYITISVERYPRETTYPRETTYPRETTYPHEREISTHEHOUSEITISGREENANDWHITEITHASAREDDOORITISVERYPRETTYITISVERYPRETTYPRETTYPRETTYP • The words above are from Jane and Dick readers and they describe the house as nice. • Ironically the paragraph starting after these words consists of the description of Pecola’s house: “….Rather,it foists itself on the eye of the passerby in a manner that is both irritating and melancholy.Visitors who drive to this tiny town wonder why it has not been torn down ,while pedestrians,who are residents of the neighborhood,simply look away when they pass it” (p.33).

  22. Shirley Temple • Film actress born April 23,1928. • Has white skin and blue eyes. • Pecola internalizes white culture. • Claudia hated Temple because she danced with Bojangles. Retrieved 12.05.2010 from http://gooddeedaday.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/gary_cooper_and_shirley_temple_now_.jpg

  23. Bojangles(Bill Robinson) • American tap dancer and film actor born May 25,1878 ; died November 25 1949. • Named Bojangles after his song “Mr. Bojangles”. • Played and danced in films with Shirley Temple • Claudia was jeallous of Bojangles Retrieved 12.05.2010 from http://tapdanceclass.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/bojangles21.jpg

  24. QUESTIONS Can you give a similar type of basic reader example like “Dick and Jane” from Turkey ?

  25. QUESTIONS Do you think that “Dick and Jane” series were successful at those times in forming the reality; knowing about the historical and social status in those years?

  26. QUESTIONS For you, what is common about “Dick and Jane”, Shirley Temple and dolls in the terms of forming a theme in the novel?

  27. Characters • Pecola Breedlove • Maureen Peal

  28. Pecola Breedlove • Black • Ugly • Imaginative

  29. Question • If you would become Pecola Breedlove in this story what would you do to restrick the people though and how would you go on to your life?

  30. Maureen Peal • Light skinned black girl • Superior • Beauty • New at school

  31. Question • Do you think people’s ideas about beauty ad the future life is related with the skin colour nowadays?

  32. Themes • Whiteness is the standart of the beauty In what ways the story includes thewhiteness is the standart of the story?

  33. Themes • Seeing against being seen If you would live Pecola’s miserable life what would you do for enable the ugliness eyes or skin colour?

  34. REFERENCES • Steppenwolf Arts Exchange (n.d.) Study Guide: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.Retrieved May 12,2010 from https://sucourse.sabanciuniv.edu/access/content/group/ENG102-A2B2C2D2-200902/Novel/The%20bluest%20eye%20STUDY%20GUIDE.pdf • BookRags ( n.d). BookRags on The Bluest Eye.Retrieved May 12,2010 from http://www.bookrags.com/The Bluest Eye • www.sparknotes.com • www.wikipedia.com • www.pan-tex.net

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