She will never be physically pretty, never have the pretty name, and never have the blue eyes she craves. PecolaвЂ™s life does change- in painful, devastating ways.Д¬ommon reasons for banning and those instances In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the BreedlovesвЂ™ garden do not bloom. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. While it makes her books a thought-provoking exploration of race and gender and led to The Bluest Eye being number 15 on the list of the most banned books between 2000-2009 according to the ALA.Д¬ourtesy of Goodreads: Set in the MorrisonвЂ™s girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pretty much the opposite of pornography (because I look at pornography as consensual in most cases), Toni MorrisonвЂ™s works deal with the difficult subject matter of sexual and racial violence. Her other works, Beloved and Song of Solomon, have also met with calls to be removed from school libraries and reading lists.

The Bluest Eye was ranked as the second most banned book in the United States by the American Library Association, and has been frequently attacked for its so-called вЂpornographicвЂ™ language and content.

I recently read Toni MorrisonвЂ™s The Bluest Eye (first time reading this book, not the first time reading Morrison) and she is no stranger to censorship. So today IвЂ™m going to be doing a slightly different review. Books by writers of color that are perennial targets for censors are Sherman AlexieвЂ™s вЂњThe Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian,вЂќ Alice WalkerвЂ™s вЂњThe Color Purple,вЂќ Khaled HosseiniвЂ™s вЂњThe Kite Runner,вЂќ Rudolfo AnayaвЂ™s вЂњBless Me UltimaвЂќ and Maya AngelouвЂ™s вЂњI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.вЂќ ItвЂ™s Banned Books Week Everyone! This yearвЂ™s Banned Books Week will celebrate diversity in literature and explore why diverse books are more likely to be banned or challenged.

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