The Blue Eyed Husky

This week we started reading The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and I was and still am shocked at the accuracy of her writing. Even though the book was written in a different time period where there was more racism against blacks and whites, a lot of the ideas still apply today. Society constructs a deffiniton for beauty where you have to have a certain skin tone, hair color, eye color, sense of style, etc.

To be beautiful in The Bluest Eye you had to have "sole green eyes, something summery in [your] complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in [your] walk" (62). Today, some of the same rules apply. I remember when I was younger I was talking to my friend about our eyes. He began to tell me about a new surgery in which a layer of your eye could be take off so that the result would be blue eyes. Not going to lie, I was fascinated. When I was little I always saw these beautiful celebrities with bright blue eyes and new hip clothes and I always wanted to be like them. I think that for little kids especially it is easier to succumb to views of society due to the constant exposure to "beauty." Although for those kids who do not have the recourses to mimic their role models they are left thinking that they are nowhere near beautiful, which I think is the biggest problem in society.