In Search of Our Mother's Gardens ~ The Bluest Eye

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens.

This book is totally about racism and descrimination. More specifically, in the book are mentioned the black women and it is said that " their bodies became to the men who used them, they became more than "sexual objects" or otherwise known as " Saints". Furthermore, in the book it is said that black people were not allowed to read or write etc, and it is pointed a question which i like to mention " What might have been the result if singing, too, had been forbidden by law". I mentioned this question mainly because, this question makes people imagine themselves and also ask themselves, what would they have done if they were forbidden from doing things they want and like? Moreover, these women had dreams as other women's but they were not allowed to follow these dreams, and their body was forced to bear children. Last but not least, it is mentioned the story of her mother, who was a happy with her family and she loved flowers and take good care of them.





The bluest eye

This book i about Pecola's family, where there is not love and harmony between them. Pecola is a little girl, who is different from the other children because she is ugly. Pecola believes that, if she had blue eyes, she would be beautiful and loved from other people. In personally i am not in favor of changing our physical appearance, such as our dressing, or even our behaviour, etc, in order to be liked or loved by other people. Firstly, we should accept ourselves, love ourselves, in order to be loved from the other. Moreover, Pecola's father was always drunk, and one day when he went home, he raped her daughter and he was pregnant from her own father. Then, she went to the Soaphead Church and tells her wish, which was to have blue eyes. He instead of helping her, uses her to kill the dog that he disliked. One important message that is conveyed through this book is that, both old and young people should learn to be independent in life, to not be abused from other people and if this happens, they should talk about this, should express their complaints or whatever, in order to prevent this.