The+Bluest+Eye+Cover

The Bluest Eye Cover  Toni Morrison wrote the //Bluest Eye// not only to describe the lives of African Americans back in the 1920’s but to tell it through the struggle of Pecola’s eyes and others that are connected to her. However, she didn’t do it through a book cover. I created the title cover from Gimp which is a clone of Photoshop. I took a photo of a hazel eye and I colored half of it blue and left the other side hazel. Within the blue part of the eye, I drew angry faces and sad faces. On the hazel part of the eye I drew an arm reaching out with smiley faces. Each side shows two different personalities of the main character, Pecola. I gave the picture the same title as the book but with a custom made font. Within the picture there is symbolism and themes that are discussed within the book.

 Symbols within the picture include the blue of the left side of the eye. In the book, Christianity is mentioned here and there. The blue on the eye represents heaven or angel like which is Pecola who wants to achieve with her blue eyes. Pecola drooled over American icons like Shirley Temple who was supposed to be a symbol of the average American girl. She had blond hair and blue eyes which is what Pecola, and (the) African American girl wanted just so she could be treated better. The custom made font was a large bold version of Arial and with __scratches and__ bits of it chipped off and scratches in it. This is because Arial is a font with perfect sides and all the damage done to it symbolizes the imperfections and damage of Pecola. There are two types of faces in that are in the eye. The faces in the blue part of the eye have disappointed looks. This symbolizes what people appear to be to Pecola after she got her blue eyes. The people in the brown part of the eye are the ones trying to reach out to Pecola as she saw them before she got her blue eyes.

 Themes that the picture displays are man against man and man against self. This is man against man because Pecola is struggling socially with the people in her community. This is also man against self because she is trying to find ways to change physically, which will supposedly make her more respectable as a person.

 The picture that I created displays all these necessary themes and symbols that someone who would read this book would need to know. They are also the foundation of //The Bluest Eye//, giving emotion and insight into the story. Particularly, Pecola’s main role in Toni Morrison’s book.