The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison is an African American writer who believes in fighting discrimination and segregation with mental preparation. Tony focuses on many Black Americans in relation to White American culture and concludes that Black people are exploited because of racism regarding white skin color within the Black community. The Bluest Eye tells the story of a young black girl named Pecola, who grew up in Ohio. Pecola loves girls and boys with blond hair and blue eyes. She believes that white skin signifies beauty and freedom and that thought was not a subject at that time in history. This book is really about the impact on a child's mindset. Tony Morrison divided his book into four seasons: fall, winter, spring and summer. The main characters of this book are three girls, Claudia and Frieds McTeer, and Pecola Breedlove. Why was Pecola considered a case? Pecola was a poor girl who had nowhere to go. The county placed her in the McTeer home for a few days until they could decide what to do until the family was reunited. Pecola stayed with the McTeers because she was being abused at home and Cholly had burned her house down. The first event that happens in the book is the start of her menstrual cycle. She didn't know what to do; she thought she was bleeding to death. When the girls were in bed, Pecola asked, "If it was true that she can have a baby now?" So now the only concern is that if she is raped again, she could possibly get pregnant. Pecola thought that if she had blue eyes and was beautiful, her parents would stop fighting and become a happy family. In kindergarten books, the ideal girl would have blonde hair and blue eyes. Many commercial advertisements all showed the same ideal look, just like the nursery book. Pecola assumes she has this beauty and becomes temporarily happy, but not satisfied. Today, Pecola wants to be even more beautiful because she is not satisfied with what she has. The fact is that a standard of beauty is set, the community is pushed to play along. Black people and black culture are deemed inappropriate and dirty. Beauty, in the heart, is having blond hair, blue eyes and a perfect family. Beauty then applies to everyone as a sort of class level.