The Bluest Eyes Author:Toni Morrison The heartbreaking story of Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl who desires nothing more than blue eyes. Having blue eyes, she believes, is the key to inhabiting the perfect white world of her Dick and Jane school primer. She feels sure that, were this wish fulfilled, the poverty of the converted storefront that is her home, the furious fighting... more » of her parents, and the ridicule of other chilren would disappear. But the tragedy of a violent rape at the hands of her father makes it impossible for Pecola to find shelter in her fantasy of whiteness, and she spins into devastating madness.« less