Part 1 of Essay
Toni Morrison allows the reader to see racism at it’s very worst. Through lack of guidance, is left ignorant emotionally and educationally, thus easily affected by society’s judgments. The reader sees what happens to an innocent young girl who is dependent on society for identification, self-value and feeling of worth. Th ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... and what she should be. When turns to society for identification she finds that they judge her from the outside only. “She looked at . She saw the dirty torn dress, the plaits had come undone, the muddy shoes with the wad of gum peeping out from between the cheap soles……Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything” (p80) Thus she thinks it is only the outside that counts. She thought that if she were able to change the colour of her eyes to blue, that being a symbol of beauty in a white culture, her lif ....