Place Names in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye by Christine De Vinne

“… The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, recounts the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl in Lorain, Ohio, where her wish for blue eyes represents desire for what she is denied, the privileges of her white classmates and the comforts of a safe home.  …”
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The impact of oppression on motherhood in Morrison’s novels by Elvi

“…Beloved was then, on 1988, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and Morrison herself, on 1993, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in Lorain, Ohio on 1931, Morrison’s real name was Chloe Anthony Wofford and she has published many novels before Beloved, namely The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, and Jazz. …”
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